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...have accomplished what we have in the Pacific with our left hand and our back turned-in the Solomons chiefly with naval and air weapons. Once we can turn our face to the Pacific, the hop-skip to Vella Lavella will look like a pip-squeak. Then strategists can begin to contemplate the kind of spectacular bypassing that will be necessary if we ever expect to reach Tokyo, the kind of massive land invasions necessary to knock the Jap out of his main bases and hold them. Until they can turn around, the Allies will have to be satisfied with...
...afternoon Lieut. Duncan Clark of Chicago, one of the press censors, came to cheer me up." (Pyle at this time had what he called "African Pip" or "Puny Pyle's Perpetual Pains.") "I was busy killing flies. . . . Lieut. Clark said he had discovered . . . that flies always take off backwards. Consequently if you'll aim about two inches behind them, you'll always get your fly on the rise. So for the next few days I murdered flies under this scientific system. And I must say that I never missed a fly as long as I aimed behind...
...shipmates for whom are should be willing to to little things like that. Maybe the W. and R. Officer could find out about it. Congrats to Jay Gates on the successful campaign for Big A1 ... the slogan which carried all wards and precincts in Platoon Three was a pip--"March Smartly With Big A1 Hartley" ... "Keep out of the Mud with...
...Continent began as a pip-squeak Minnesota-Dakota mail carrier, got nowhere until 1936 when rich Thomas Fortune Ryan III bought a big block of the common stock. Ambitious Tom Ryan started romping all over the place, wound up with 6,700 flight miles from Minneapolis (Northwest's home plate) to Huron, S.C., to Tulsa and to St. Louis. Then he applied for routes to New Orleans, other points...
Jinnah, whom the Congress calls a British tool, last week stepped up his pip-squeaking with a self-contradicting attack on a speech by the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow. The tired Viceroy had again claimed that "agreement cannot be reached between the conflicting interests of this country as fro who is to take over responsibilities which we are only too ready to transfer to Indian hands." First Jinnah called Linlithgow's speech "most inopportune and likely to shatter what little hope of settlement had been created," then he gave substance to Linlithgow's claim by ranting...