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...quite so lively as prewar balls of natural rubber, synthetics are far peppier than balls made of reclaimed rubber. Each ball contains 8/10 oz. of buna, sells for the usual 50?. Dunlop, Spalding, Voit and Pennsylvania (who make all U.S. tennis balls, under their own and others' names) are all in production, with pioneering Pennsylvania already popping...
...Guinea. General MacArthur's men (Sixth Army veterans of Buna) had landed at Saidor on the northern New Guinea coast, found scant opposition, lost three men dead, buried eleven Japs, seized the settlement's grass huts, coconut groves, rubber plantations (the first recovered from the Japs), an unused air strip. Then they fanned out, trapping Jap patrols who were skirmishing with Australians some 60 miles down the coast. With an Australian column poised inland in the Ramu Valley, they set up a two-pronged threat to Madang, the next important Jap base northwest of Finsch-haven...
...York's American Distilling Co., now busy with "buna and bombs," this week announced it would sell all of its 245,000 bbl. of bourbon and rye to its stockholders at cost (around $30 a bbl.). Two days before, OPA had hit American with a $7,500,000 ceiling violation suit...
...Maybe he sells cigarets-back in Omaha. But he goes over like a lead balloon with the boys who have SEEN Guada, Buna and the north Tunisian coast. And a lot of guys who have been wearing the same socks for a month could cheerfully throttle the copywriters who created...
Before he joined the air corps two years ago, Dicks Bong helped his father with oat and potato crops at Poplar, Wis. (pop. 462). His first combat was in the Buna battle of Dec. 27, when he twice rang the bell with a Zero and a dive-bomber. During the smashing of the Lae convoy in early January he nailed three Zeros. He got another in the Bismarck Sea battle...