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Sixteen colleges extending along the Atlantic seaboard from New Hampshire to North Carolina have entered 91 contestants whose combined ability constitutes one of the strongest fields in several years. Of all the championship marks see in the past, only one--the 2:51.9 medley relay effort of Vande Weghe, Hough and Van Oss of Princeton--seems beyond the reach of the current crop of mermen. Any of the others may conceivably go by the boards...
...whole Far East was atremble. From Burma, waves of refugees were already breaking over India's borders. Calcutta, Madras and other seaboard cities were being partly evacuated. If the Japanese struck at India and the Indian Ocean, 200 years of British-Indian argument might go up like tissue paper in a bonfire...
WASHINGTON--The oil industry has recommended a 25 per cent curtailment of gasoline deliveries along the Atlantic seaboard pending start of a consumer rationing program, a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. mandatory blackout of filling stations, and "immediate action to reduce fuel oil deliveries," it was disclosed tonight...
Tanker shipments of oil to the U.S. Eastern Seaboard were 40% below demand last week. In New York City, the normal two months' stock of heating oil was down to a few days' supply. Between torpedoes and tanker diversion, the Eastern oil shortage (TIME, March 2) was getting acute...
...campaign began, 15 ships, besides the 16 sunk in U.S. waters and the three off Aruba, have gone down off Canada. The total showed plainly that, in a week already black enough for the Allies, the Axis was smashing at the U.S. as dangerously on the Atlantic seaboard as in the Pacific. U-boats have accounted (by unofficial reckoning) for at least as much offshore tonnage as was lost during World War I. Approximately twice as many seamen have been killed or listed as missing; and the subs have done it in only one month...