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...overall report on Lend-Lease operations. In the 21 months since its beginning in March 1941, the report showed, the total value of Lend-Lease expenditures in goods and services to 30 of the United Nations was $8,233,000,000-or 13% of total U.S. war expenditures. The stream of goods to the U.S. Allies had increased month by month until October 1942, when it dropped off-presumably because of the U.S. offensive in North Africa...
Therefore we invite all undergraduates in any class to the first meeting of a new, shorter, stream-lined competition for all boards next Tuesday night at 8 o'clock, in the CRIMSON building, 14 Plympton Street. The competition will be designed to find men really interested in putting out a paper in a time when its services, we believe, are more needed than ever before...
...fast enough; you're crawling over that target. You've got to level off and fly straight to drop those bombs, but you'd rather do anything than give those gunners a straight shot at you. You level off and hang on. Tracer bullets stream up past the nose. You can see them coming a long way off and they come so slow, so leisurely till suddenly they whizz by like miniature meteors. The light on the instrument panel blinks rapidly as the bombs are released and you are free to begin dodging again. You have...
...Kelly seemed on his way to Term IV. When he heard of the Republican antics he cracked: "They've even been changing horses before they got to the stream...
...some of the Army's devious ways of killing by nonexplosive methods. >Old-type flame throwers sprayed liquid fuel (from canisters strapped to the gunner's back) in a diffused spurt which left the target burning briefly. The Army's new flame thrower squirts a thin stream of an improved fuel, with greater accuracy, over a greater distance, leaves its target burning longer...