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Last week Colby sadly postponed moving day until after the war. Materials to finish its new buildings could not be had. With enough plumbing on hand to equip three buildings for Colby coeds, but no more, the college hearkened soberly to the president-elect. Bix announced that when he takes office in July he will give the college something more important than new buildings-a new educational program built around "one central idea." The idea: how man can better his environment...
Though India has a war potential of perhaps ten million able fighting men, the inability of either Britain or America to equip them rapidly over a distance of twelve thousand ocean miles, and the undeveloped state of India's own machine-industry, have this consequence: Japan cannot be held on the Indian front by machines but only by a hostile population. If the common people like those of Russia and China are ready to scorch their own earth and carry on guerrilla warfare, Japan's forces can be neutralized and her conquests made fruitless, even if Calcutta falls...
...schedule, with one company alone turning out an entire trainload daily. . . ." He said that the U.S. now has six times as many soldiers on the world's battlefronts as General Pershing had in 1918 after ten months of war,* that enough Garand rifles are on hand to equip every man who needs...
...writer was one of the engineers sent to Europe in 1939 to assist in the completion of this factory and equip it with machine tools for the production of aircraft engines...
...shipbuilding program, which must equip these lines, is the greatest in history. The total scheduled for 1942 (8,000,000 tons) is more than twice as much as the U.S. built in its best World War I year (1919). By May U.S. ship yards will average two launchings a day. That will not be enough: ships will still be the No. 1 bottleneck...