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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason for this sudden interest in subs was the realization that, apart from the airplane, the 1942-model sub is the best U.S. bet for an offensive weapon. Weighing over 1,500 tons and 300-plus feet long, it shoots torpedoes fore & aft, carries quick-firing cannon and anti-aircraft guns, is fast enough to keep up with any fleet. It can cruise on its own for months, with a radius of 20,000 miles. From any angle the sub looked like the best way to clip the tensing strings of Japan's supply lines...
There should be more revivals of these important landmarks, but revivals that try to retain the spirit of the play as actually written. Exigencies of the commercial and amateur theatre too often prevent such revivals, for box-office returns are founded on "names," and most of the fore-runners of the modern drama are unknown outside classrooms. It is a pleasure, then, to see the current production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, Nikolai Gogol's "The Inspector General." This semi-realistic social comedy, first produced in 1936, influenced all the later Russian playwrights and also those of Germany, Norway...
...sales. In some lines (particularly evening clothes, more than a third of her total sales), volume fell off 50-90% after Pearl Harbor, said her business manager, "Gumpy" Gumprecht, last week. Further pushed by a lease about to run out, and by the mounting shortage of fine fabrics (be fore the war, 80% of her materials used to come from abroad), it looked like a good time for her to retire to private life as Mrs. Saul Rosenstein, real estate broker's wife and mother of two. How long she can keep away remains to be seen: the last...
...fails completely to solve the dining halls' financial crisis, the cash and carry plan is a logical and necessary first step. It emphasizes the need of less careless waste, and at the same time it fore-shadows the possibility of future curtailments in service and convenience...
...capturing the enemy's leader. General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck probably had both man and maxim in mind when he opened the Western Desert campaign against the Axis in November. In the most hair-raising story of World War II it was revealed last week that, be fore the attack started, General Auchinleck sent a force of Britain's shock Commandos 200 miles behind the Axis lines. Their object: to destroy the enemy's leadership, in particular Nazi General Erwin Rommel...