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SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA--American fighter plane pilots and Australian anti-aircraft gunners scored the greatest air victory of the southwestern Pacific campaign today, destroying 41 Japanese planes in two hours...
...frozen" in their jobs. The order does not force any person to stay at his present job, does make him provide good & ample reasons for wanting to change. In the works were similar freezings of 110,000 merchant seamen, 1,500,000 West Coast aircraft workers, and thousands of Southwestern railroad track workers. But these are only samples of what must still come...
...teeth, per 1,000 men, were: 102.85 in Vermont, 2.90 in Arkansas. In the Civil War drafts, rejections for bad teeth were twice as frequent in New England as in Delaware and Maryland. Preliminary reports on 1940-42 draftees again indicate, says Dr. East, that "the southern and southwestern States will have the lowest rates" of rejections for bad teeth...
...Indian children on northwestern reservations are, toothwise, more decadent than those on southwestern reservations...
Last week General Lear urged his commanders to "kill the academic and unimaginative outlook ... so to train their subordinates that they are physically and emotionally prepared for the realities of war. . . . We will not find any Japanese in the southwestern Pacific who will permit us to go along with our eyes closed, our guns unloaded and our weapons buried beneath a mass of bedding rolls." He illustrated...