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Acting to help both veteran and non-veteran students bypass commercial rates in the Square for the sale and purchase of second-hand textbooks, the University chapter of the American Veterans Committee yesterday opened a clearinghouse service at its office in Phillips Brooks House...
...Tuvinians promised to "unite even closer around the party of Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet Government," and promised to turn their country "into one of the blooming corners of the Great Soviet Union." They added that since Russia "provided us with the opportunity to bypass the capitalistic path," Tannu Tuva has revised its alphabet (now modeled on the Russian), has organized state and collective farms, tractor stations, wagon works, shoe factories, and developed gold, coal and salt mines...
When the decision was made to bypass Mindanao and land on Leyte (as a result of the Navy's success in using carrier-borne air power to batter down Jap land-based air power), the guerrillas were alerted. Commando parties were sent by MacArthur's Sixth Army commander, German-born, 63-year-old Lieut. General Walter Krueger, to gather information and to destroy a few key Jap posts...
What could be done, I asked the commander. He said his decision had been made by higher headquarters-he was to shift attacking forces from the railroad into the hills, try to bypass the Jap garrison, close with the enemy positions at some point nearer Hengyang high in the roadless hills. We could go with him or return. We thanked him, said we would go back and write what his men had tried...
...deployed awkwardly in textbook tactics; now they crept silently through the jungle. At Viru Harbor, U.S. Marines, infiltrating from the rear, wiped out Jap outposts and drove the defenders into the sea. The Jap supply line to Munda was cut by a roadblock which the Japs were unable to bypass. The Americans were using Japanese tactics to drive the Japs out of the Solomons...