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...Selections From) has reached its wartime circulation ceiling-125,000 copies. With adequate paper supplies, printing equipment and transport facilities, Reader's Digest men think it might have reached to 200,000 in a few more months. In Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia the natives swamp their dealers for this newest Digest foreign venture...
Into the Jungle. One night, early in the Empress Augusta Bay operation, Sergeant Azine's company slipped into the jungle to hold a "road-block," an outpost guarding the approach to the Marines' beachhead. Miasmal swamp and forest hemmed the area. Most of the company bivouacked smack on the trail. Flank units took position in the jungle; they alone might use firearms, because they alone could shoot without danger of hitting their comrades. Marines on the trail were limited to knives, entrenching tools, fists, or any weapon that would do a job silently...
Their pace seemed slow, the gait of the runty ponies between the shafts of their carts dispirited. But at day's end, when a runway had been completed, a building put up or a force-landed plane fished bodily from a swamp, Americans saw the result and never lost the wonder of China's art in the use of sheer man power...
Richard Mortimer's excitement was dampened by professional botanists, pend ing further inquiry. Many a weed contains latex: for example, swamp milkweed yields 45 Ib. per acre, goldenrod 75 Ib. But 4,000 Ib. per acre is ten times as much as the average output of Malaya's richest rubber plantations...
...after Munich the evil tidings out of Europe and Asia began to swamp the State Department. . . . Slowly, reluctantly, hesitantly, Franklin Roosevelt abandoned his isolation...