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...earnings in the third quarter of 1942 were up by some 24%. This was mostly just bookkeeping. U.S. corporations through the first half of the year put aside huge tax allowances because they feared that the Treasury's tax theories would become law. Congress instead put through a milder bill (TIME, Oct. 26) and earnings reflected the change...
They took turns on census treks, the longest of which was 61 days in weather never milder than 48 below...
...Japs might try to take well-defended Port Moresby by land, using only the troops and supplies that could be hauled along the "impassable" one-man jungle-&-mountain path. It would be an audacious gesture, but Australian troops had already had a bitter taste of Jap audacity in the milder jungles of Malaya (where 17,000 Australians were taken prisoner...
...range where the Germans are trying to cross. They hold, too, the middle shores of the Caspian, a pathway the Germans may try to follow southward from Astrakhan. And they have an internal front in Persia to master as well. The wild Kurdish tribesmen of the hills and the milder people of the lowland towns love neither the British nor the Russians; many still harbor Nazi spies, take Nazi money, and even spend Persian money to help the Germans from within. Last week the British seriously suspected that a looming famine in wheat-rich Persia was the work of wealthy...
Already some of the time formerly used for the milder calisthenics and marching is devoted to combative and competitive exercise in the form of wrestling and boxing...