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There was dire need for the risks they ran, and for the trickle of supplies that was slowly becoming a tiny but continuous stream. China was desperate for all they could carry, and for the combat planes and ground crews that other pilots were ferrying over northern Burma. The Chinese still had 50 miles of railroad in east China, which denied the Japanese the use of the line between Shanghai and the south. But the Jap had taken the last of three fine airfields prepared by the Chinese in Chekiang and Kiangsi Provinces against the day when the Americans would...
...still talking last week of a reduction of cars in use-for lack of rubber-from 27,000,000 now (v. 20,886.000 in 1932) to 23,700,000 at year's end, to 9,000.000 at the end of 1943 and to none by 1945. If that dire prediction comes true, whatever the civilian may suffer in loss of convenience will pale beside the terrific consequences to the war effort itself...
Blasting the "synthetic and stumbling leadership of the Republican Party in these desperate times," Mr. Murphy declared: "There is no program worthy of the great tradition of the Republican Party in a period when the nation is in dire peril." All he could see was a record of "pseudo-leadership, petty partisanship, mediocre talents, personal and political aggrandizement at the sacrifice of principle." The Republican Party, said he, had been betrayed by its leaders...
...soldier-crowded streets of Melbourne one evening last week to get a breath of air. They got it, but in gasps. "What we saw," spluttered the wowserish Lord Mayor of Melbourne, "is offensive to many decent-minded citizens." Next night His Lordship & Lady stalked out again, confirmed their dire observations of the uninhibited amorousness of U.S. soldiers and Australian girls...
...House Ways & Means Committee concentrated last week on ways & means to get more blood out of the taxpayer-turnip. They sat deaf as beetles to dire warnings of moral disaster from the eight "community property" States*. The eight States had argued (getting a little blue in the face) that a change in the tax laws to require joint income-tax returns would cause more divorces and force men & women to live in sin. But committee members, hard-pressed by the revenue-hungry Treasury, were concerned more with cash...