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...took the word "rubber"' out of the U.S. language last week. All the gold in Fort Knox (some $14,500,000,000) could not bring enough rubber from the Jap-infested Far East to satisfy the U.S. demand (50,000 tons a month). Price Boss Leon Henderson ruled that the nation's "average" motorists-including traveling salesmen, taxi drivers, and isolated countrysiders without other means of transportation-may not buy new tires. Only exemptions: medicos and their aides, ambulances, fire fighters, police services, garbage trucks, mail trucks, public busses carrying at least ten persons, ice-&-fuel delivery, farm...
...slicing the islands' supply line from Pearl Harbor west, by heavy attacks on Philippine airfields, by plain wear & tear on the islands' limited aircraft equipment, Japan had won the first requisite of victory: command of the air. Overwhelming in numbers, the Jap flailed at the U.S. positions with rifle, machine gun, tank and plane, careless of his losses. Bitterly, savagely and calculatingly, the tall men from the U.S. and the short men from the island fought back. It was a battle of churning movement: swift slashes of armored cars and men in trucks, ceaseless slamming of artillery, swiftly...
...Jap was writing off his losses. He came by thousands. During last week he may have set down as many as 200,000 troops on Luzon, thousands more on Mindanao 600 miles to the south. Some of his soldiers were veterans. Some were youngsters from 15 to 18. They were ill-clothed, lightly armed with .25-caliber rifles and submachine guns. But the lightness of their ammunition (U.S.'s lightest: .30-caliber) enabled them to carry more rounds...
...Jap came in droves, met withering fire, marched stoically up to it and took his medicine with a grunt. There were more where he came from. And as long as he was-on his feet he knocked out U.S. soldiers with his small arms. If this had not been true, there would have been no necessity for the U.S. Army's retirement to its prepared positions ringing defenseless, bomb-battered Manila...
Mills rushed So We'll Knock into print. In Manhattan it published another song composed that Sunday afternoon: You're a Sap, Mr. Jap, by James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Nat Simon. Excerpt: Uncle Sam is gonna spanky. Wait and see, before we're done The A. B. C. and D. will sink your rising sun. . . . You're a sap, sap, sap, Mr. Jap...