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...such a proposal is acceptible to students of the College some sort of central depot might be established at Cambridge where stocks might be accumulated. Transportation to Boston would be undertaken by the USO. It was also possible that some system might be established whereby the USO would provide a truck which would pick up furniture at students rooms at a given date...
...case Gibraltar falls and the Mediterranean ports of Algeria are immobilized. Gibraltar is now the principal way station for bombers flown from Britain to North Africa, and perhaps for long-range U.S. fighters. Casablanca (1,200 miles from southern Britain) can serve as a substitute, and as a depot for planes flown from the U.S. via Natal and Dakar; men and equipment can be hauled by rail from Casablanca to upper Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The counter-preparations were well along. Allied strategists hoped that the Axis had missed the boat to Gibraltar...
...From the Middle East, where Allied bombers pounded Hitler's African outpost at El Aghéila, U.S. Liberators set out for the second time in two weeks to batter Naples. Since the crippling of Genoa the Axis depot for supplies to Tunisia has been the city of the superstitious Neapolitans. The Italian High Command admitted "heavy damage in the harbor area and in the center of the town," reported 57 dead, 138 injured...
Every floor had its own tinfoil collection depot-we've had our own rubber and scrap metal reclamation day-almost a hundred of us have graduated from the First Aid classes we held five nights a week in our reception room-and the Treasury Department gave us its Certificate of Merit for the number of employees who signed up to buy bonds regularly in our own War Bond Drive...
...substance after Franklin Roosevelt and Donald Nelson named him tsar to produce and conserve rubber. The actual words are the ones the hardboiled, red-faced, Irish Bill Jeffers spoke one day in January 1922 to trainmen clustered around a red-hot, pot-bellied stove in the Hanna, Wyo. depot...