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...find it impossible and then the news comes through that our plans have to be changed. The road to El Wak is mined and the Banda are strung in front of the fort in very large numbers and it's our job with A Company in front to mop them...
...Company forms up and. . . we're on our way. . . . What bush! Armored cars accompany us and it's still a miracle how they got through. A Company are to contact the enemy, artillery is to open up and the rest of the battalion is going to mop up the pieces. Our planes roar overhead, the heat is killing, the pace is terrific. We reach our first bound but the enemy are gone. I pass the word around: "Save your water." I rinse my mouth out and we go forward...
They ought to use their legal remedy and not the remedy of force." A squat, sloppily dressed man with a mop of uncombed hair and the face of a kindly bulldog, William Hammatt Davis, 61, is a successful Manhattan patent attorney who has long made labor relations his avocation. He has served in many a Government agency, State and national, was chairman of the New York State Board of Mediation. To him belongs credit for settlement of the Allis-Chalmers strike, which Labor Department conciliators had given up, OPM's Hillman had fumbled and OPM's Knudsen...
...major and minor sports may soon be lopped off in the budget-balancing campaign. The H.A.A. has no choice; it must tighten its belt or get caught with its pants down. Alumni donations to the Endowment Fund are dribbling in pretty slowly. A play-for-pay football team would mop up the red ink in the ledger, but there's more chance of John Harvard's statue crawling under its pedestal than of this means being adopted. Last night's Crimson Network seminar of Harvard and B.C. footballers, though, came through with a workable idea...
...train of British armored cars, tanks and infantry trucks one day last week. It wriggled onto the coast road, penetrating still farther into the African empire of Benito Mussolini. From the desert to the south another spearhead, fresh Anzac and Moslem Indian troops, poked north and west. Before mop-up units in Bardia had finished prying the last pockets of Italian Terribili from their wadi hideouts, the two points were encircling Tobruch...