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Yesterday's meager registration of 213 Summer School and graduate students was called but the clam before the storm by Stanley K. Leonard, Chief Registrar, who expects that today's and Monday's flood of students will keep Memorial Hall clerks and solicitors busy from 9 until one o'clock...
...Without gasoline to burn, the U.S. was getting back on to an older method of locomotion: shanks' mare. In 17 States the gas rationing had already sharply changed the lives of 8,500,000 motorists and the uncounted millions who rode with them. After July 1 the meager rations would probably be made more meager. And some time after July 1 the entire nation would go on rations. The reason was one word: rubber...
Preliminary investigation uncovered no hint as to cause of the crash. The meager facts: The plane was in no apparent mechanical difficulty. Although the rain gave way to sleet and snow within a half-hour, neither Pilot Brown nor pilots who came in before & after had reported icing difficulty. Wind was northwesterly, velocity 20 m.p.h. The Salt Lake City radio range, whose faulty operation misled another mainliner into a Wasatch ridge in November 1940, was working normally. Had Don Brown been 300 feet higher, he would have cleared the knob...
Statistics have it that the country's demand for two-wheeled transportation reaches the 30,000,000 mark, while the industry's production of a million and a half bikes last year far exceeds the present meager output...
...British stood, the Japs pressed the Chinese ever backward. There were some 20,000 Japanese; the weary young Chinese commander had only 8,000 men. The Japanese had plenty of tanks and artillery; the Chinese had no tanks, almost no artillery from Chiang Kai-shek's meager stocks in China. They had to fight with rifles, pistols, light machine guns. Sometimes the Chinese called out to the Japs: "Lao hsiang (old countryman), don't fight!" But the Japs fought...