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Last week real alarm crept up the citizen's veins. Seven officials went before a Senate committee, painted a picture so black that it was veiled in military secrecy, and asked for power to requisition private tires and cars...
Eyes on the Needles. The men who watch the gauges indicating how the U.S. war economy is going scanned their dials anxiously this week. The needle points crept up & up. Like a good head of steam in a boiler, higher wages and prices had been useful for a while -the steam behind the throttle was pretty low when the war boom started. But now the indicators inched toward the danger point...
...carried out two of the wildest and most feline raids of the war. They sneaked on cat feet into a Japanese supply base near Digos, a port on the Gulf of Davao, and burned warehouses containing "large stocks of food, gasoline, ammunition and other military supplies." Near Zamboanga they crept in camouflaged force toward one side of the town, made as much noise as Kilkenny cats on the other, then rushed against the rear of the "alert" Japanese into the very heart of town. They killed some Japanese and vanished, except for a smile-for they had found they could...
Wake. The task force crept up before dawn on Feb. 24. Before the sun had burst up out of the sea behind low-hanging clouds, the planes were launched, the force advanced, deployed, put into action. The Jap was caught snoozing...
...this time the Germans fought back, spitting torpedoes. One torpedo punched the frail hull of the Vortigern, a 1,090-ton oldtimer, and she went down. The British patrol sloop Guillemot, a 580-tonner which can do little better than 20 knots, spotted an E-boat lying in ambush, crept up within 50 yards before the German crew woke up. The Guillemot sent a 4-in. shell into the E-boat's water line and hosed its deck with machine-gun bullets. "It is considered," said the Admiralty communiqué, "that this boat was sunk...