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...Through the summer and fall the students got their seagoing foundation in ships of the Atlantic Fleet: the battleships Arkansas and New York, cruisers Quincy, Tuscaloosa, Wichita, Vincennes. After 25 days at sea they had the bare rudiments of navigation, gunnery, communications and seamanship, had also learned how to scrub their clothes white, how to face aft when they came over the side and salute the quarterdeck (where in early navies the ships carried their shrines and pagan altars). Rest of the education is being provided this winter and spring in three-month classes at Annapolis, Northwestern University...
Case. In New York City, the U. S. Government charged two bustards, two brolgas, two pittas, eleven carpet snakes, two scrub wallabies, two blue-faced honey-eaters, 241 other creatures with illegal entry from Australia...
...University of Minnesota, addicts of Beat Me Daddy Eight to a Bar, Scrub Me Mamma With a Boogie Beat, etc. got a university charter for a Boogie Woogie Club. At its first meeting, 300 students heard a new tune, Beat Me Dimitri- tribute to Conductor Mitropoulos of the Minneapolis Symphony...
...David Lilienthal, he accused his native land of having exported its soil's fertility, for which no price, however free or however protected, is high enough. Said he: "There is many a gullied hillside in our south eastern States today that is being plowed by a scrub mule, trying to raise cotton in competition with Oscar Johnston's mechanized Pine Delta plantation. It can't be done." His solution: diversification and mechanization of southern farms, restoration of their soil and forests, industrialization. The cotton problem would then take care of itself. But "you can't clear...
...look like another Italo-British speed contest (see above). From Kassala, a few miles inside Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the British pursued Italians 68 miles to Biscia, head of a railway running down to the Red Sea port of Massaua. Operating here in rough foothills covered with dry six-foot scrub where lions and elephants are more at home than tanks, the British, although forced for the most part to hug the roads, kept so hot after the retreating Italians that the latter scarcely fought even rear-guard actions, until they were within 15 miles of the railhead. The British...