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...Navy had its heroes. A swift motor torpedo boat commanded by Lieut. John D. Bulkeley slipped into Subic Bay one night and sank a 5,000-ton Jap ship, got away clean. A week later Bulkeley returned, this time in a torpedo boat commanded by Ensign George Cox, to knock off another 5,000-tonner. Meanwhile more than 200 miles north of Manila a band of Philippine guerrillas burst from the hills and slashed at a Jap airdrome at Tuguegarao on Northern Luzon. They reported (presumably by radio to Corregidor) that they had killed no Japs, routed 300 more...
...called these raids, slicing down out of the mountains, the attacks of "Communists and rebels." But the Nazis presently felt obliged to declare a state of war in Yugoslavia, and in October even sued for peace. A Serb puppet and several Nazi officers were taken, blindfolded, on a long motor ride to Mihailovich's mountain headquarters. When they refused his demand that the execution of Serbs stop, that the Nazis withdraw from Serb provinces (except Belgrade and Nish), General Mihailovich is said to have sworn to fight "to the last German." By the end of November the Nazis...
...McLean nailed her colors to the mast on the day New York had its first air-raid alarm. The alarm was false, but Mrs. McLean, already at her "post," declared: "We shall remain on duty for 24 hours. Our Motor Corps and emergency kitchen will be drawn up outside the door ready to rush to any spot where there is a disaster. I have sent women downtown to hunt for tin helmets, and others are sewing armbands on their uniforms. I shall stay here all night...
...Cross also had its Motor Corps. More important were thousands of ladies in production centers who whipped up hospital garments, diapers, children's clothing, made millions of surgical dressings for the armed forces. Nurse's Aide Corps taught women to take over the routine jobs of nursing, to free trained nurses for other jobs. A blood donor's service filled blood banks for transfusions. With few delusions about women's greatest talents, officials stressed three prosaic training courses for housewives who wanted to help: First Aid, Home Nursing, Nutrition...
...more & more U.S. citizens. The 7,818,000 persons who filed returns in calendar 1940, the 15,000,000 in 1941 will be some 22,100,000 in 1942 and still more if personal exemptions are again lowered. By Feb. 1 every one of the 36,000,000 motor vehicles in the U.S. must bear a windshield sticker signifying that the motorist has paid a $2.09 tax for the privilege of using a car. Then after five months the motorist must buy a $5 sticker, good for the 1942-43 fiscal year...