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...theory, the U.S. has always accepted these principles, which are basic to a strategy of full offense. In practice, in a year marked by Pearl Harbor, the siege of Stalingrad and the British defeat in Africa in June, the Army & Navy had never dared conform. They tried to build every kind of materiel, expanded as fast as they could outfit the men, often hoarded equipment. If the agreement that Oliver Lyttelton got is really a matter of practice this time, Pearl Harbor is indeed a long way behind...
...Union's actual proposal has gone unnecessarily far in advocating that all liberal arts courses be thus merged. University Hall's concentration on molding Harvard's liberal curriculum to conform to the needs of war has left no place for the rumored coeducation. The main purpose of Harvard now is to train men for war. The vast majority of its students in the future will be scientific concentrators, one-year men, or students actually in the Armed Services. Any courses designed to give these men the flavor of a liberal education cannot at the same time conform to Radcliffe...
...Treasury last week announced that in December it is going to have to borrow $9 billions-largest financing in history. At the same time it became clear that Henry Morgenthau Jr. is at long last changing the Treasury's methods of bond distribution to conform to methods used in the Liberty Loan drives of World War I and successfully practised by Canada in this...
...Angeles tall, blond Army Pilot Lieut. William N. Wilson, 25, met his old friend Airliner Co-Pilot Louis F. Reppert Jr. "It was agreed," said the report of a Congressional investigating committee, "that Lieut. Wilson would attempt to time his take-off [next day] from Long Beach to conform with the time of the airliner at Burbank so that they could meet some place in the vicinity of San Gorgonio Pass." The plan clicked; at the rendezvous Lieut. Wilson waggled his plane's wings in greeting. He passed in front of the airliner...
...Leverett broadcasting system operates with standard transmitting equipment and not through the electric power lines as does the Crimson Network. For this reason the transmitter must be limited to conform with the regulations of the Federal Communications Commission...