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...Happy Birthday to You." These facts, a warning to the overoptimistic among the Allies and some scant balm for the crushed Italian ego, did not make the conquest of the first territory within metropolitan Italy any more palatable to the war-sick, disorganized and frustrated Italian people. Mussolini waited 24 hours before officially announcing the capitulation, claiming that Italian airmen were having "great successes" and finally that Pantelleria had been turned into a "gigantic volcano." Italians did not miss the fact that the defeat came exactly three years and one day after Mussolini had led Italy into war against France...
...keep Britain alive and functioning as the Allies' European base, 700 to 800 ships must cross the Atlantic each month. Each new Allied war theater means more convoy routes, more targets for Admiral Doenitz' fleet, more dispersal of scant Allied escort ships...
With the prospect of a scant three week schedule and only a handful of games, Coach Floyd Stahl's Crimson diamond aspirants are rounding into shape these days in the damp confines of Briggs Cage, anxiously awaiting the arrival of warmer weather. Yesterday saw the first practice contest, a four inning affair in which the B nine handed the A squad a 4 to 0 beating...
...scant six weeks its pattern had been spread for the U.S. people to read in every page of the Congressional Record, in the angry, antibureaucracy bills that tumbled into full hoppers, in the killing off of Leon Henderson and Ed Flynn, in no less than 17 investigations of the Government, in the wrathful roar that followed directives, orders, Federal moves big & small...
...after day on 24 oz. of rice. From this rice the heroes of China have to draw their fats, vitamins and carbohydrates. Only the northern troops of provident General Hu Tsung-nan have any health, for he made his men grow their own greens to add to their scant rations...