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...sanctity of the Yard was invaded last evening when two Navy Platoons locked horns in a softball game under the sacred elms. Using a large concrete drain between Weld and Mathews as their home plate, the Navy men lustily hit long fly balls which sent their outfielders dodging the trees and tripping over the tradition-steeped walks...
Foresight. In New Orleans, the Roosevelt Hotel, mindful of the wartime drain on manpower, advertised for elevator operators, concluded: "No one under 65 years of age need apply...
...Russia and turning their full strength against the U.S. and Britain—becomes a necessity this summer, the second front may be launched before the U.S. and Britain feel able to do so successfully. Such a "sacrificial second front" would have the attendant risks of heavy losses and of heavy drain on the United Nations' growing military might...
Skipper Robinson gave orders to steer by her engines. But she was down by the bow, shipping water fast. Her choked pumps wouldn't drain her. Lining up a bucket brigade, her crew bailed her out like a rowboat, all night and all the next day and night, till she dragged on her belly into the port of Tjilatjap, Java...
...makers of air-cooled aircraft engines had pondered one problem: how to fabricate strong cylinder heads cheaply. Even the best cylinder heads sometimes cracked under prolonged stress. Heads have two functions: to withstand the tremendous pressures generated by the cylinder's air-gas vapor explosions, and to drain off excess heat with flangelike cooling fins. To drain off the heat was the tough problem. England's Bristol works whittles fins in forged heads at tremendous expense. In the U.S. a less costly scheme was adopted. Heads were cast in a bird's nest of sand patterns. Hundreds...