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...allies. It was once an accepted fact that the mountainous borderland between Burma and India was impassable to armies-that the only practical route to India was by sea and air. Yet refugees from Burma filtered through those same mountains, 1,000 and more a day. The mountains which overlap eastern Burma and Siam were also supposed to be well-nigh impassable. Last week Japanese tanks from Siam wormed through the lower ranges, in dark prediction of what they may do on the road to India...
...this multidimensional crisis," and finds the key to its irrational pattern in "the vertical conflicts in which nations fight one another, and the horizontal conflicts which are ideological, political, social and economic." These latter "transcend boundaries," for no nation, including the Axis powers, is free of them. "They overlap purely national allegiances, and disrupt the national fronts." Author de Sales warns his readers that this picture "is anything but simple. . . . The vertical conflicts are frequently in apparent or real opposition to the horizontal ones...
...Saves 13% deadweight in a ship's hull, and proportionally increases the vessel's carrying capacity. Weight reduction comes from elimination of 1) overlap of a ship's plates-welded they lie butt to butt, 2) angle-pieces often required in riveted joints, 3) the rivets themselves...
Burgy Ayres and Tom Cowen, late of Dick Harlow's squad, were on the ice in addition to Summers. Ayres goes into training in September and stays there until late June, as the training periods of football, hockey, and baseball all overlap...
...Office of Facts & Figures is not supposed to overlap these other information mills-its function is to see that they get their stories straight. OFF will try to keep the various Government services from tripping each other up, publishing contradictory figures, at least at the same moment. It will work behind the scenes with the Inter-Departmental Advisory Committee, will report to busy little Fiorello H. LaGuardia, director of the Office of Civilian Defense...