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Over the Hump? The great hope sprang out of war production. U.S. industrial genius had triumphed beyond belief. WPB had suddenly discovered that its first big job was done. The spadework was over in munitions-making, in getting the many new plants built, in converting the old ones. No one had guessed how much war material the new plants would make- and how fast...
...Burma Road, behind the south-marching Chinese, another Jap force sprang up. Apparently it had come from Indo-China. Chiang, blinded by lack of reconnaissance, wheeled to meet this attack...
...result of the riot, said Dr. Heaton, a law was passed the following year prohibiting "the odious practice of digging up . . . dead bodies" for dissection. In its stead there sprang up a bootleg body-snatching racket run by ancient gangsters who did not hesitate to make their own corpses when none were available. It was not until 1854 that a New York law was passed granting unclaimed bodies in public morgues to medical schools. Body snatching in some other parts of the U.S. persisted until the 20th Century, by which time laws similar to New York State's were...
Chwang was bringing ammunition and daily supplies to a machine gun crew in the front lines, when the Japs sprang the attack. "It soon became apparent that the gunner on the next machine gun down the line was not crossing his fire properly and his gun was not very effective in stopping the advance," he continued...
Tire restrictions were being felt all over the nation last week. Milk companies abandoned daily deliveries, began to send their trucks out every other day. Department and grocery stores encouraged patrons to tote their purchases themselves. Black bourses for tires sprang up everywhere, and many an unwary motorist found himself missing a spare. "Do we have to go bankrupt?" wailed tire dealers...