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Though De Gaullist guns thus disrupted Nazi preparations, Casablanca still managed to put up the stiffest of all resistance to the U.S. invasion. Foresighted George Patton shoved three tank columns ashore east and west of the sprawling city and hit first for an outlying reservoir. With that in his hands, he could cripple Casablanca if necessary. Soon parachutists seized the city's main airdrome and the tank force advanced...
Amid the shufflings and reshufflings that have marked the search for an efficient officer procurement plan, the ROTC system stands essentially unchanged. This anachronism persists because no logical change short of total suspension is possible. Designed to maintain a reservoir of officers for our peace-time army, and to furnish a nucleus for rapid expansion in case of war, the ROTC today contradicts its own existence...
China. ". . . No foot of Chinese soil . . . should be ruled from now on except by the people who live on it. . . . There is in China a great reservoir of admiration and affection for the U.S., but the reservoir is leaking fast. . . . We have talked a lot about our production figures, but some of our Allies have seen very little of our actual arms...
...Navy was not slow in also tapping the vast reservoir of manpower and officer-material in the colleges. And by the end of 1917, 2,500 men who were taking Naval training passed in a review of all the military forces at Harvard. Broken down into units this total included the Naval Cadet School for Ensigns. University undergraduates training for Ensigns' examinations, and the University Naval Radio School. Adding to the Navy men the 1,150 men training in the ROTC, a total of 3,650 men were at Harvard working for their commissions. Throughout the early part...
Their researches highlight an ominous fact; the U.S. now has a vast reservoir of plague infection among the wild rodents of the West. It is too widespread to be wiped out, and it is spreading eastward. Last year it was discovered for the first time in Colorado and North Dakota.* Says a U.S. Public Health Service doctor: "There is no reason to assume that the infection will not spread to the rodents of the Great Plains and into the Mississippi Valley and Eastern...