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...army of some 600,000 men on war footing at an average cost of $150 million a year. Only Britain's economic and political assistance had enabled the country to keep up its costly, nerve-racking resistance against Communist demands on the Dardanelles. With Britain unable to furnish assistance, Turkey would crack up under the cost of continued mobilization. The Russians could accomplish by mere threat of invasion all that they could hope to achieve by invasion. If Turkey and the Dardanelles went, the whole Middle East might slide into the Russian orbit...
Many of you will recall the War Advertising Council, which was created to furnish the Government (free of charge) with a centralized organization, including advertising agencies, advertisers, and all media (newspapers, magazines, radio, billboards, car cards, etc.) through which national campaigns could be put quickly and economically before as large an audience as possible. This was the organization that built the campaigns for war bonds, salvage, and the multitude of other emergency problems presented to the American public during the war years...
Tiny Trinity College, a small institution with a big basketball team, will furnish the Varsity quintet's last non-Ivy League competition of the season tonight, in an 8:30 o'clock contest at the Indoor Athletic Building...
Stummel Snipers. In Germany, the cigaret had opened new vistas of financiering for both victor and vanquished. For a few cartons Americans could furnish their apartments, buy exquisite furs and Leica cameras. German workers found it more profitable to take their daily pay in a handful of cigarets than a fistful of marks. But at $140 a carton, no German could afford to smoke his cigarets. Instead, he sniped stummels (butts), which were valued from 3? upwards, depending on length...
Hurdles, which are 45 and 60 yard highs and 60 yard lows in indoor tact, have several returnees from last spring's squad in the persons of Henry Kendall and Dave Reed. West Flint, of the 1942 Yardling team, is expected to furnish the backbone in the hurdling department...