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...England bowed to its first autumn monsoon over the weekend, the University witnessed winds of 60 miles per hour and heavy rains totalling almost two inches. Students who could find hip boots waded through four inches of water covering Boylston Street. Others raced about to buy antifreeze or drain radiators when the thermometer dove to 32 degrees...
...next two months, when monsoon winds from the ocean bring heavy rain, thick mud on the roads and bad flying weather could be expected. Nevertheless, General Van Fleet's intelligence officers predicted hopefully that the Reds' summer offensive-if it comes soon-will be less heavy and easier to deal with than their two spring pushes...
Last year Sethi's big offensive cleared 80,000 acres of kans. By last week, with the monsoon rains expected, Sethi's tractors had rumbled to a stop for a well-earned rest. Their labors this year had freed close to 300,000 acres of wheatfields from kans, reclaimed another 30,000 acres from the jungle. The extra food they had produced in five months alone was estimated at 100,000 tons, a great victory for India, and for Western machines...
Heavy rains of the beginning monsoon season mired the roads and hampered air support. This week, nevertheless, the Eighth Army stood approximately on the line, well across the parallel along most of the front, which it had occupied in April when the Reds launched their bloody spring push. Washington's estimate of enemy casualties for the second phase, including those inflicted by allied air action, soared to 162,000. Added to the 90,000 estimated for the first phase, this made a total of a quartermillion. U.N. soldiers found a grisly new way to occupy their time, when they...
...bill went to the Rules Committee over a month ago. It has the support of many Congressional leaders, and President Truman has repeatedly prodded Congress for action on it. Every day it becomes more crucial that Congress authorize the grant, since the monsoon season comes to India during the summer and makes the reshipment of grain within the country very difficult. If the grain does not leave this country soon, there will be much suffering in India by the end of the summer...