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...slowly growing haul of Japanese prisoners, observed on both Okinawa and Luzon, was characteristic of the last days of campaigns in which the Japs have been defeated. Cut off without hope of relief, often half-starved, with few officers left, some enemy enlisted men decide to live.* There was no sign yet that any large number of enemy troops would be ready to surrender until total national defeat was upon them. And Premier Suzuki was intensifying his efforts to pump the savage military code of Bushido into civilians at home, men and women alike...
...China Convoy has now grown to some 125 members-U.S., British and Chinese. None receives pay, and all personal funds are put into a common pool. Statistically, FAU's contribution does not seem large (average haul: 160,000 ton-kilometers every three months), but the group is actually distributing 90% of Free China's civilian medical supplies...
...French footed the bill for the most part, through reverse Lend-Lease. But in a France short of everything, the Army had to furnish materials, comb through the Nazi prisoners for skilled workmen, haul coal for the plants from northern France, even supply food...
Sitting pretty on Broadway was Play wright John van Druten, with two smash hits (The Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama}. Sitting prettier were Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, with two smash musicals (Oklahoma!, Carousel)-and the producers' haul from Mama. On a seesaw were Broadway's two gaudiest impresarios: Mike Todd aground, his pockets heavy from Up in Central Park] Billy Rose aloft, his pockets light from The Seven Lively Arts. Still spry, Life With Father beat the record of Abie's Irish Rose (2,327 performances), had only Tobacco Road...
...railroads are getting up steam to handle the greatest long-distance transportation job in their history-the overland haul of tens of thousands of U.S. troops, and equipment, on their way from Europe to the Pacific. By last week the big freight push to the West had already begun...