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...tons in 1941, Britain could expect no more than 2,100,000 in replacements from U. S. and British yards. It could hope for little expansion of its own from then on, might well suffer a shipbuilding decline if German airmen began to play hob with its home yards. Already the U. S. has supplied Great Britain (directly and through neutrals) with 1,500,000 tons which it could spare. Henceforth U. S. shipping aid waits on construction. At present, besides 1,600,000 tons on the ways and under contract, there are approximately 4,900,000 tons of ships...
Bursting at a time when class distinction is carefully soft-pedaled and most old school ties are in mothballs, Bingham's bomb raised hob. "Since when," asked the Mirror's acid columnist Cassandra, "has Democracy, fighting for its life, been a spittoon for an elderly brass hat?" "If," suggested the Herald, "only the youths from public schools prove to be efficient officers, it would be well if the public schools, which were founded for the poor . . . should be given back to the classes for whom they were intended." "The views expressed . . . do not reflect those...
Involved in the fall of Corizza were six Italian divisions, about 72,000 men. Their mechanization was their undoing in the narrow, muddy mountain passes where they stuck out Italy's neck into Greece. Like the riflemen behind trees who played hob with the British regulars in 1776, the Greek mountaineers from their hilltops demoralized an army which had been told that the Greeks would be pushovers, in fact would probably welcome Fascism with open arms. When Mussolini spoke, promising that Greece's back would be broken (TIME, Nov. 25), the Greeks continued pressing, working with geography instead...
When the hurricane of 1938 swarmed over Long Island, it played hob with the oyster beds. That is one reason for higher oyster prices this year. Oystermen have other foes. Nastiest is a thing called the drill, which bores through the oyster's shell, devours the oyster. One active drill can liquidate 30 to 200 oysters a season; a swarm of them can wipe out a young crop. But most oystermen save their wrath for the starfish (good for nothing but fertilizer), which glaums on an oyster, wears it out until it opens up, then eats it. Oystermen fight...
...them busy at Ft. Benning and Ft. Knox, far from the maneuvers. The same was true of planes: the Air Corps needed most of its planes for its training program. For reconnaissance, Blue and Black Army commanders had observation planes, but almost no attack planes, which could have played hob with troop movements, especially river crossings. The handful of pursuit and bombardment pilots detailed to the maneuvers spent most of their time dogfighting, testing a telephone warning system for tracing the course of invading enemy aircraft by plotting locations where civilian volunteers reported bombers overhead...