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...from a U.S. submarine had landed at Newchwang, Manchuria, and purchased fresh fish from the natives. To reach Newchwang, at the northern end of the Gulf of Liaotung, the submarine would have had to penetrate the string of islands off the southern tip of Japan, cross the Yellow Sea, creep past the Jap naval base at Port Arthur, lie off nominally Jap-occupied territory. Total Pacific bag of U.S. submarines to date (including twelve more merchant sinkings announced last week...
...press associations were close behind the News. Even the usually sedate, aloof New York Times took down its hair, assigned crack Reporter Meyer Berger to the yarn, gave it top-of-Page-One display. And for the first time in its haughty history, the Times let words like homosexuality creep into its columns. All over the U.S. newspapers made room for the kind of news most people like to read. One day's News had 251 column-inches devoted to sex & crime, 145 devoted...
...attempting to improve relations between valeterias and students, the Council has asked that pressing contracts be made more definite than they have heretofore, thereby eliminating any possible misrepresentation which might, inadvertantly, creep in. Valeterias have promised to make an honest effort to emeliorate the relations with the undergraduate body...
...disease. For every man who tosses with dysentery, pneumonia or malaria in a hospital, four others suffer, unattended, in bivouac or trench. At the root of all this aching misery is a malnutrition so vast that no one dares try to cope with it. The fevers of China creep into bodies which exist day after day on 24 oz. of rice. From this rice the heroes of China have to draw their fats, vitamins and carbohydrates. Only the northern troops of provident General Hu Tsung-nan have any health, for he made his men grow their own greens...
...fourth portable under the Major was one of five in the area-medical units designed to bring tents and equipment for 25 patients within 10,000 yards of the firing line. But the jungle portables have evolved into something else: they creep up to within 750 yards of the battle line, expand their capacity by making use of rude huts of native grass, do their work only 30 or 40 minutes by litter from the spots where men are wounded...