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After six and a half hours, Dr. James E. Bell Jr. decided to improvise. He gave a shot of neostigmine-recently used to relax contracted muscles in polio and arthritis (TIME, Jan. 15) and a shot of atropine. In 15 minutes the bitten boy's abdomen began to soften, his legs relaxed a little. In an hour he was comfortable except for a slight headache...
...enemy on Okinawa had been com pressed into a minute fraction of the island's area - no more than 20 of its 485 sq. mi.- and U.S. ground forces called for fire support from the fleet's guns to soften another stubborn line, the last on which the enemy could stand. Along the Yaeju-Dake escarpment, 3,000 yds. long, 600 ft. high, including a 300-ft. cliff, perhaps half of the 15,000 or so surviving Japanese were dug in. They had scores of fortified caves, from each of which they would have to be burned...
Many of the plants hit by the sweeping cutbacks, such as Douglas, Consolidated Vultee and Lockheed, had a cushion: some of the manpower and facilities will be shifted to making planes for the Pacific war. But for Henry Ford's Willow Run, there was nothing to soften the blow. Three days after the cutback came, Willow Run began to lay off its 22,000 workers, thousands at a time. By the end of July all will be gone. Then the vast, $100,000,000 plant will be closed up tight. WPB, caught flat-footed by the Army...
Land & Sea. Off shore, U.S. warships hurled great projectiles into the Japanese positions. And always over the beaches came the supplies. The Japs sent land-based aircraft against the ships. In one day 242 were shot down. To soften the enemy's air attacks on Okinawa Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58 steamed into Japanese waters, struck at Kyushu, destroyed 368 enemy planes in four days...
...Corps moved on Baguio, summer capital of the Philippine Government. It was hard slugging over tortuous mountain terrain dominated by Japanese mortar and artillery fire. Progress was measured in yards. Fighting was a matter of probing the resistance with infantry patrols, then falling back until artillery could soften the hard spots-and they were very hard...