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...April 13, 1942, the President vested in BEW complete control of all public-purchase import operations. Mr. Jones has never been willing to accept that fact. He has instead done much to harass the administrative employes of the board in their single-minded effort to help shorten this...
Steps in the right direction, wrote Nurse Alma C. Haupt in last week's American Journal of Public Health, are Public Health Service tuition scholarships and the proposal to shorten the nursing course to 30 months (24 to 28 for college graduates) instead of the usual three years. Another right step: a bill, passed by Congress and signed a fortnight ago, which provides for a Student War Nursing Reserve-tuition, maintenance, a little spending money and uniforms for 65,000 new student nurses and 36,000 others already taking courses. Costing $65,000,000 a year, the program probably...
...Every new campaign, every combat lesson in World War II has tended to lengthen, rather than shorten, the training period necessary to make an army. Of all the U.S. Army's infantry divisions (more than 70, and climbing toward 100 at last published reports), not more than seven have had battle experience in Africa, New Guinea, the Solomons or the Aleutians...
Russian scientists claim that man can increase his ability to see in the dark by 40 to 50%. They also claim that he can shorten the period of eye adaptation to darkness from half an hour (the usual time) to six minutes. Three Russians outlined their principles last week in War Medicine, but did not tell whether the Red Army uses them, or how. Said they...
...gains of summer were now nearly consumed by the losses of winter. Berlin's communiqués intoned a refrain: "In order to shorten the front . . . the German troops, obeying orders, are withdrawing to a new, shortened line. . . . Movements of our troops continued without interruption by the enemy...