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Because last night's dimout failed even to approach the goal set by the military authorities, the regulations may extend 15 miles inland. Cambridge officials were planning to paint over the streetlights so as to darken them until suitable shields could be constructed to prevent any light from glowing upward, but the dissatisfaction of the Army and Navy over the effect measures taken thus far have had may necessitate even more drastic action here...
...until they had made their way through barbed-wire barricades to sand dunes several hundred yards inland did the Nazis wake up to the alarming fact that the British were once again poking around the coast of France...
...conquers Burma must win the rivers and their valleys. With them go Burma's chief port, Rangoon; the oil of Yanangyaung, on the Irrawaddy ; the ruby and silver mines; 85% of all the precious tungsten in the British Empire; Burma's rubber plantations; the inland cities-Pegu, Prome, Mandalay-where Burmese kings once ruled their separate realms, and the British were never quite at home...
...they welcome Japanese students, even though loyal to the U.S., to their campuses? The man who passed them this hot potato was University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul. Sympathizing with his 300 Nisei (American-born Japanese) students, whom he had to evacuate, Dr. Sproul asked 32 inland colleges (all west of the Mississippi) to admit them. The University of Washington followed suit, but extended its request to universities east of the Mississippi...
...patrol boats, the 110-foot (wood) and 170-foot (steel) sub chasers which are now building in profusion in U.S. small boatyards. They are being made on the shores of the Great Lakes, along the New England coast and even in landlocked inland States. Their production rate is a satisfactory military secret...