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Starvation, endemic in China, is more acute in war, increases the hazard of epidemics. The Japs have added new plague foci by dropping infected grains of rice and shreds of cloth from planes on plague-clean areas...
...anti-personnel land mines are secreted booby traps. Some, usually sensitive two-pounders, are buried like antitank mines. Since they kill comparatively few of the enemy, their psychological hazard is greater than their apparent value...
TIME, Nov. 30, in reviewing Decisive Battles of the U.S.A., says: "Hoisting his large blue battle flag with the white letters DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry outsailed and outgunned the British on Lake Erie...
Nightmare (Universal) is a swift, amusing, amiable melodrama in which murder and Nazi secret agents are no great hazard for sultry Starlet Diana Barrymore. Promoted from pigtails (TIME, Oct. 5), she handles with easy competence a handsome negligee and a whiskey bottle. (She uses the bottle as an anti-Fascist weapon...
...which there was nothing for the U.S. to attack except Canada; the key to Canada was the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes line of water communications. Hoisting his large blue battle flag with the white letters DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry outsailed and outgunned the British on Erie. On Champlain Captain Thomas MacDonough anchored his ships in such an advantageous position that when the British tried to attack him, he put them to rout without even moving. These two engagements gave the U.S. the necessary naval superiority on the lakes...