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...Said he: "It's going to be a cold winter in Japan." Riding huge four-motored Consolidated Liberators, Chennault's bombers had struck hard at Linhsi's Kailan coalfields. Those mines, 75 miles northeast of Tientsin, yield one-third of China's normal coal production, furnish much fuel for Japan's heavy industries and domestic heating...
Amid the shufflings and reshufflings that have marked the search for an efficient officer procurement plan, the ROTC system stands essentially unchanged. This anachronism persists because no logical change short of total suspension is possible. Designed to maintain a reservoir of officers for our peace-time army, and to furnish a nucleus for rapid expansion in case of war, the ROTC today contradicts its own existence...
Canny Catherine would furnish "neither men, ships, nor money" for trade with the Alaska region. But she was willing to let the merchants furnish them. So the Siberian sea trader, Grigor Shelekhov, decided (circa 1780) to plant a Russian, colony in North America...
...helpless in the slow swells, the hulk of the Yorktown did not sink. Buckmaster ordered tugs and salvage vessels. The next day 160 picked men reboarded the carrier. They worked all night pumping out holds and cutting guns from the lower side. The destroyer Hammann was standing by to furnish power for the pumps. The next noon a Jap sub launched two torpedoes into the carrier's weakened plates and sank the destroyer with two more. The concussion broke several men's feet. Lieut. Commander Ernest Davis was blown overboard. Many men had broken arms and legs...
...College Committee for Russian War Relief is holding a Russian Autumn Festival Dance on Friday evening, September 4 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plans include a floor show, and Ruby Newman's orchestra will furnish the music for dancing...