Word: outposts
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...from Prince George, B.C. flew provincial police, to begin a vigil at outpost fur sales. Soon an Indian tried to sell 16 marten pelts which had been cured not as Indians cure them, shapeless and wrinkled, but the white man's way, long and smooth. Police arrested 22-year-old Alex Prince, charged him with the double murder...
...Betio is changed greatly. The tangled morass of coconut logs and bomb-pitted sand has been leveled. Orderly rows of tents have risen to shelter the marines, the sailors, the airmen and the Seabees who man this outpost...
...Infantry Flees. Tanks within the town hugged the buildings to escape German shelling. One Sherman was hit and set afire beside an outpost building with one room intact. Privates Tony de Meo (Brooklyn) and Fred Ratcliff (Pontiac, Mich.) sweated as the tank's 75-mm. shells began to explode just outside the room. Then they vaulted from the window and dashed to safety with snipers' bullets pinging through the air around them...
...bombardment alone could not defeat Japan. Said he: "The strongest military element of Japan is the army, which must be defeated before our success is assured. This can only be done by the use of large ground forces. . . . [Japan's] outlying islands of the Pacific represent an outpost position, important, it is true, but no longer decisive...
Back in 1941, the U.S. Supreme Court took a major step along this line in its famed "flash of genius" decision involving the Cuno Engineering Corp. But Justice Arnold had taken a big leap further, to establish an outpost on the far left. Because modern corporate research is based, not on the flash of genius, but on the work of groups painfully sifting through thousands of costly experiments, the new ruling, unless reversed, may make many a corporate discovery unpatentable. Of this possibility, Manhattan's conservative Journal of Commerce took a Stygian view, saying: "The Arnold dictum . . . could spell...