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Reactionary. In Tokyo, Mrs. Sumie Kawasaki, founder and president of the Women's Livelihood Cooperative Association, finally had to tell members that they were hopelessly in the red, suggested they hire a male business manager...
From China and from the Marianas, B-29s were keeping Formosa, Kyushu and Honshu under attack. Their performance was getting better. The 21st Bomber Command (Saipan and Guam) struck at a tempting target, the Kawasaki aircraft factory near Kobe, where the Japs made the new twin-engined fighter known as "Nick." Returning pilots, with photographs to back them, reported 315 hits in the target area, and the plant out of operation for months...
...imperturbable Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's pre-Pearl Harbor Ambassador to the U.S., went the task of reassuring Japan's laborers of ultimate victory. But the Admiral, who well knows U.S. capabilities, thinly disguised his misgivings. In his speech to Kawasaki laborers three points could be discerned...
...raid was not a total surprise as reported. Early in the morning we had an "alert," and later an "urgent" warning. We first knew the show was on when an anti-aircraft battery near the Kawasaki factory district opened up on one of the two Tokyo raiders. A second plane flew within half a mile of our camp and came within an inch of destruction. A Jap battery of eight guns found the exact range at which the B-25 was flying and let go at it. The first shots were a little ahead of the plane, and the second...
...first round of the doubles had these results: Dabney and Lovering, Harvard, beat Drennan and Bowes, Cornell, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2; Wells and Spaulding, Yale, beat Kawasaki and Philler, Pennsylvania, 6-3, 6-2; Richardson and Gordon, Princeton, beat Thompson and Thompson, Williams, 6-4, 6-4; Green and Marston, Cornell, beat Miller and Brown, Haverford, 6-0, 3-6, 6-0; Register and Tilden, Pennsylvania, beat Abbott and Linen, Williams, 6-1, 6-2; Thompson and Pyne, Princeton, beat Morse and Pell, Harvard, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. In the second round Partridge and Dolbeare, Yale...