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Above the thin shimmering water-slash of a rising moon, a U.S. Flying Fortress thundered into the Jap harbor at Rabaul one night several months ago to make the first test in the South Pacific of a new technique-"skip-bombing...
...Japs succeed in building up their strength, the New Georgia group may prove a thorn in the flank of any U.S. attack farther up the line. The Japs might even put in enough strength to oblige the U.S. forces to take it first. And if U.S. forces cannot skip a few islands now & then, the road to Tokyo will be long indeed...
Should bright youngsters who have finished junior year in high school be allowed to skip into college, earn both a high-school diploma and a year of college credits at the same time? This plan was recommended last fortnight by a joint committee of the National Education Association and the American Association of School Administrators. The committee predicted, its widespread adoption by next autumn...
...month was coupled with the admission that this "practically cuts the island off from shipping commerce." (In normal times, .shipping averaged four times as much.) Most help came from the Agricultural Marketing Administration, which was establishing food stockpiles on various Caribbean islands and helping to further a hop-skip-and-jump transportation route which makes use of schooners between the islands. But even some of the schooners, which can make the runs between the islands in daylight, had been machine-gunned by subs. And AMA had made fantastic and grievous mistakes: it sent 3,000 bags of sugar to Puerto...
Wartime jumbling of classes and graduation times, which made Dave Arnold and Dave Place, members of the class of '44 and '43, co-managers this year, have eliminated the apprenticeship period for next year's men, as they skip assistant managerships entirely...