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...Because of national defense work there has been an enormous drain on Cambridge's water supply," said Superintendent Timothy W. Good last night. "Consumption has jumped from 12 to 17 million gallons a day, and top capacity production is only 15 million...
...Prospect. What bothered the Chinese most was not General Tojo's war in progress. It was his war in prospect. For years the Chinese Government had feared both Russia and Japan, had dreamed of a war that might drain strength from both. Last week the dream seemed about to come true, but it seemed a nightmare...
Submarines and airplanes have improved since the last war. But if our merchant ships are to be armed, it will be necessary to rob the navy for gun crews and some guns, and to use a large quantity of World War weapons. The drain on the Navy, the complete inadequacy of the training of the Merchant Marine for combat, and, in many cases, the unsuitability of the deck structure for gun platforms, all form strong arguments against the dangerous and useless gesture of arming our merchant ships...
...found that he was again facing John Harvard, for there was no doubt about it now, but on one wall of the narrow room hung a plaque saying "Harvard Student Council." The elderly divine cleared his throat: "I don't often do this," he observed. "It's such a drain on one's energy. Now that Harvard only allows one fund drive a year, I feel that I must conserve my strength for this single effort, but I can remember when . . . See here, Vagabond, let me show you where this money that my young friends are asking for is spent...
...London Daily Herald, whose largest stockholder (49%) is TUC, made an investigation of its own, pooh-poohed the Bevin theory, warned that continued "drain of skilled men into the forces" is leaving gaping holes in war industry that cannot be plugged. Bawled Bevin, an old TU Congressman himself: "A paper that I helped to build-a working-class paper -is carrying on a nagging, quisling policy. ... I am disqusted with the business since I left...