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...W.C.T.U. ladies have little hope of talking soldiers & sailors out of their thirst. Their strategy is to worry legislators into drying up local areas all over the country. Their favorite piece of legislation is the Sheppard Bill, now receiving the lackluster attention of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The bill combines three pious prohibitions: 1) of prostitution in camp areas; 2) of the sale of all liquor in camps themselves; 3) of liquor in areas around the camps...
...Europe the innocent are punished for the acts of invisible rebels, under the principle of "collective responsibility." Another weapon in the arsenal of terror is the deliberate snuffing out of scholars, on the theory that even nonpolitical scholarship breeds a thirst for freedom. Another is torture. When a German policeman was killed in the Czech mining town of Kladno, the Gestapo tortured the mayor and all members of the municipal council to sweat out the name of the killer. By the time it was learned that it was German soldiers who had killed the German policeman, the mayor had committed...
...Force, and that Singapore Island had only four good fields. They knew how tightly packed are the buildings and docks of the Naval Base right across the Strait from Johore, and therefore what squatting ducks of a target they would make. They knew that the island's thirst would have to be slaked from two secondary rain-catching reservoirs-the kind blasted at Hong Kong...
...Singapore is not so well prepared. Most of its big guns are concentrated on the seaward side, not opposite the Malay Peninsula. Its main reservoir of water is across the Strait in Johore and although there are emergency reservoirs on the island itself, the Jap might be able to thirst out the city's 600,000 inhabitants. This week the enemy was within 40 miles of the main water supply...
...powder (TIME, Oct. 13). Now they will make another 114,000,000 gal., boost total U.S. industrial alcohol output to around 500,000,000 gal., the highest ever. Unless Army & Navy consumption of powder exceeds all estimates, the distillers alone will soon make enough alcohol to slake the thirst of the guns. Then the regular industrial alcohol makers can go back to their normal customers (plastics, paints, chemicals...