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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the 14 hours between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. of Oct. 16, the U. S. put its man power and its democracy to a test. Both passed, with honors. Some 17,000,000 free men, aged 21 to 35, did what they had been told to do: register for the draft. They went to appointed places. They stood in line. They answered questions. They signed small, imperious cards. They buried a tradition: that the U. S., in peace, never requires its men to take up arms. Henceforth, whether or not they were destined for actual service, they...
...main British forces, H.M.S. Ajax flirted with the shrouded Sicilian coast to draw the Italians out. This was the light cruiser which had run the Admiral Graf Spee to cover in Montevideo last winter. Tall, square-jawed Captain E. B. D. McCarthy was itching for a chance to test the motto of his new command: Nec quisquam nisi Ajax (colloquially: You can't do nothing till Ajax comes...
Another German problem is oil and high-test gasoline for her tanks and warplanes. To her own plentiful stores she has added the undestroyed stocks of the conquered territories. Her own synthetic industry was good for 600,000 tons yearly; Poland added an annual 530,000 tons. But Germany needed at least 12,500,000 tons of oil a year for total war. Even the complete output of the Rumanian oil fields (production: one-tenth of Texas') would supply only about a half of presumed needs. Technology-bound Russia, Europe's largest producer, could...
Twenty-five undergraduates, chiefly Freshmen, trained for middle distance running under the direction of Coach Bill Neufeld throughout the college year. Every two weeks they ran on a tread mill in the Laboratory to test their oxygen consumption, lactic acid content of the blood, and general endurance. Careful check was kept on basal metabolism during the experiment...
...This test is given under the honor system-no peeking...