Word: successful
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With the German Army weakening, slowly but surely, the Russians know well that the secret of success is to give a weary enemy no rest...
What Price Success? COMINCH Ernest J. King is on record as saying that the Japs are improving their antisubmarine devices, but this fact does not mean that the Japs have licked U.S. subs as the Allies have licked German U-boats. Other factors tending to increase sub losses: 1) a big increase in the number of U.S. submarines (many of them new) now operating in the Pacific; 2) shorter Jap sealanes, as the Japs are driven back, which means the Japs can provide better antisub protection; 3) apparently more & more dangerous missions undertaken by U.S. subs...
...workers of a construction company, headed by John Payne, sustain heavy losses of men while building a Navy strip on a Pacific island which is attacked twice by the Japanese. An ambush designed to trap the Japanese fails of success because of the blundering of Payne, who leads his men--armed only with rifles and riding bulldozers and steam rollers--into the teeth of the landing force. Later he redeems himself by saving the island from a second attack. The whole affair makes the necessity of having an armed construction corps apparent to Washington, and the Seabees (tarantara) are organized...
Columnist Fisher groups 54-year-old Pundit Lippmann with old (69) G.O.P. Spokesman Mark Sullivan (55 papers, circ. est. 5,000,000) and old (66) Roosevelt-baiting Frank Kent (87 papers, circ. 5,000,000) as having undergone "violent reversal of attitude at periods approximating their middle years and success." Of Sullivan, Fisher says: "The fact that none of the tragedies [he has predicted] ever came to pass . . . has in no way affected [his] status as prophet, analyst," keeper of the Old Guard faith. Of Kent: "A prosperous citizen [vice president of Baltimore's Sunpapers] . . . when [he] assails...
This Rough House show will be fashioned after an earlier success insofar as it will be presented as a radio program and will begin promptly at 2100. Dancing in Memorial Hall will begin at 1930, will be interrupted for the entertainment in Sanders Theatre at 2100 and will be resumed again immediately after the show until...