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Fiction Writer James Warner Bellah, now an infantry lieutenant colonel, made the flight, told how 50 men sweated to haul glider wrecks from the landing path...
...shark shortage. After scouring the oceans since the Silurian Age, sharks seemed to be disappearing from the West Coast. The 400 to 500 West Coast fishing boats searching for soup-fin sharks from Seattle to Mexico roamed as far afield as the Navy would let them. But their winter haul (worth over $6 million in a good year) was less than 50% of 1943's catch...
...seas, is now sailing in great force over waters that once never carried an American ship bottom. Far-sighted men count on the seagoing power as a great postwar fact; for one, Rear Admiral Jerry Land, wartime maritime boss, intends to hold on to enough U.S. merchant ships to haul at least half America's postwar trade in American bottoms...
...Japan has vast stocks of oil on hand, can get all she wants in the Dutch East Indies. But the road south is long, watched closely by U.S. subs. Short on tankers, Japan can ill afford to trade a short, unconvoyed lane to Sakhalin for the perilous haul from the south. What Russia took was solid gain: the concessions' entire installations, equipment, even food...
...fewer murders than in 1942. Robberies were down, too, but the haul per holdup was higher...