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...Every new campaign, every combat lesson in World War II has tended to lengthen, rather than shorten, the training period necessary to make an army. Of all the U.S. Army's infantry divisions (more than 70, and climbing toward 100 at last published reports), not more than seven have had battle experience in Africa, New Guinea, the Solomons or the Aleutians...
This summer, in a Varsity match with a Business School team, Freedman defeated Jenkins 9-7, 9-7, and on the basis of this he is rated the favorite today. Freedman's greater experience and capture of the 1941 New England Intercollegiate championship also tend to lengthen the odds on Jenkins...
...Smith and Vassar announced that they would close for a month or more next winter, to save fuel, electricity and transportation. They will lengthen their Christmas vacations and cut spring holidays...
...suggestion is to take off Leon Henderson's price ceilings ($20 a ton for No. 1 heavy melting scrap at Pittsburgh), let prices rise to a level where every U.S. junkman would lengthen his route and hours. But this suggestion comes mostly from scrap dealers, finds little support from steelmen such as Eugene Grace...
...been invalidated by the courts, this was the first one to be formally renounced. The President made it clear that he had not been responsible for the mistake in the first place. Retail merchants had wanted the date of Thanksgiving set a week ahead to lengthen the shopping season before Christmas; the expected boon to trade had not materialized; the changed date had been an experiment and the experiment had not worked. But at this point, said Mr. Sullivan, "there was encountered an often-ignored condition, the tendency of mistakes to take root and become permanent. Manufacturers of calendars print...