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...real significance of Madagascar is that its lee shore shelters the 250-mile wide, heavily-trafficked Mozambique Channel, which, if the island were in Jap hands, would seem to Allied shipping like the neck of a bottle of poison. From the island the Japanese could play hob with Allied shipping bound either for Suez or India. But for once the Jap had been beaten to the punch...
Blithe Spirit. Noel Coward's gay farce of how a first wife's mischievous ghost plays hob with a writer's second marriage (TIME...
...Play Hob. Father John has still another bag in which to stow unorganized workers, and another relative to hold the bag: loyal Brother Denny, whose United Construction Workers union has invaded A.F. of L.'s building trades, has grabbed everybody it could lay its hands on. How many new C.I.O. members are under the Lewis flag is a military secret buried deep in Lewis' files. But there are enough to play hob with C.I.O. harmony, enough to start a dozen bitter labor jurisdictional wars...
...orders would also play hob with West Coast agriculture. In the Los Angeles area, Japanese produce more than half the truck crops?especially celery, spinach, beets, string beans?vegetables which take infinite work and patience. In Santa Cruz County, a $500,000 crop of sprouts and artichokes awaited harvesting by Italians. Most of California's tomato crop, which accounts for a fourth of U.S. canned tomatoes, has been grown by Japanese farmers...
Last week the only U.S. citizen known to have escaped from fallen Hong Kong told how a hell-for-leather, 6 ft.-2 in. San Francisco chiropractor played hob with Japanese nerves in a last-ditch fight to postpone the Crown Colony's collapse, leaving little or nothing to nature...