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Devastating barrages like those laid down at Cherbourg, Saipan and Guam have eaten deep into the Navy's store of bombardment ammunition: 41,000 tons of shells have been fired at Jap and German shore defenses alone-230 times the total used to win the Spanish-American war. The need for rockets, for both ships and planes, is increasing. There is also a deficit in 40-mm. antiaircraft guns and in the ammunition they shoot...
...years His Eminence, the Grand Senussi, Seyyid Mohamed Idris, had eaten the bitter bread of exile in a cozy villa on the Nile. But never did the spiritual and temporal leader of three million warlike, puritanical Senussi tribesmen give up hope of returning to his native desert. Never did he falter in hatred of the Italians who had cruelly dispersed his people and turned their holy city of Girabub into a fort. Over cups of China tea flavored with mint (Senussi Moslems may not touch alcohol or coffee), His Eminence entertained intriguing envoys from remote Saharan oases, helped recruit Senussi...
After they have eaten a hearty break fast round a big oval table, some member opens the session with an extemporaneous prayer. Then the city officials open their pocket-size New Testaments. Being chiefly politicians and lawyers, they are naturally attracted to St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Explains Mayor Roger D. Lapham's administrative assistant, David Lewis: "We are taking up Romans' now because that Book is an exposition of the law of a Christian. There are some attorneys in the group and we decided to start there. It is a thorough going-over...
...Mort aux Boches! They were more than eager to talk to the Americans. They said the Americans would be welcomed generally by the French patriots. The Germans, they said, had been very correct in their social relations with the French, but had eaten the cream of the crop and had compelled the Frenchmen to work on beach fortifications, and the French women to do their laundry, for which they paid...
Presently the Supreme Commander, full and beaming, swigged the last drop of coffee and pushed back his half-eaten meal. He had broken his own rule. A tactful escort murmured about the mess regulation on food economy, which is enforced by slips inscribed: "Eat all you take on your plate or explain by endorsement here...