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...Burma theater, where more than a dozen British Empire divisions are now engaged, has been doomed to scant world attention. Nonetheless, Britons, Indians, West Africans have paid heavily in the inhuman jungles (battle casualties for the first six months of 1944: 40,000; disease casualties...
Bottleneck. One natural defense remained. A scant 15 miles south of the Kwangsi border, before which the Japs were poised, is the Hwangshaho defile, where river, railroad and highway all pass through a gap five miles wide and eight miles long. Here, if anywhere, a stand must be made. But it must be made with lesh against machines. Cabled TIME'S Correspondent Teddy White: "Kwangsi's one resource, its one hope of resistance, now lies in marshaling a people's army such as helped to stop the Japanese in their first penetration of this province four years...
...season (which opens next week in the Northern Zone). In addition, the WPB relaxed shotgun ammunition restrictions, allowing each hunter four boxes (100 shells) instead of the one box allowed last year. The hunter's problem was to get his four boxes; most dealers still had scant supplies, were doling out one box per person. It might not be such a bad year for the ducks after...
Thus Goddard was not only an "astronaut," as you call them, but actually started the whole modern cycle of astronautics. He is the spiritual father of the whole German and French discussion along these lines in the '205 and '305, though Ley gives him scant treatment in his book...
...upon a hospital, upon a family of six in a backyard shelter, upon apartment houses, upon more shops and busses. Londoners, shaken but still full of understatement, talked mostly about the lucky misses. One bomb sailed close over a crowd at a band concert in Hyde Park, landed a scant 500 yards away, killed only two. The band went on playing On Steps of Glory...