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...build a big naval training station on Seneca Lake. All Geneva's spare rooms were let; cots filled the City Hall, an old movie house, a dance hall, hotel corridors. The once quiet, orderly town nearly went mad. Buses were so jammed that sometimes drivers had to threaten unruly crowds with wrenches in order to make them let passengers out. Decent bars became clamorous dives. Honest citizens dared not let their daughters go out after dark. More policemen were hired but holdups and disorders mounted. Staid, tradition-loving Geneva felt its life was ruined. Everybody was miserable...
...reply, able Mr. McCloy (see p. 20) backed DeWitt to the hilt. Wrote he: "I know of no Army officer in whom I would place greater confidence. He has thought of more dangers that might threaten the West Coast than even you with your alert mind have thus far conceived...
...Rubber Reserve Corp.; toluene (for TNT) to Army Ordnance; aviation gasoline to the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator. Something at last began to happen about six weeks ago. Its foundation was the sober recognition on everyone's part that 1) the rubber situation was so dire as to threaten the war effort itself; 2) the raw materials situation as a whole (particularly in steel) was so dire that the rubber program had to be frozen, and on a strictly string-saving basis at that...
...south "is the logical place for Hitler to attack because he needs the oil in the Caucasus, and because from there he will be able to threaten the British flank." His plans for an early attack were probably thwarted, Karpovich said, by climate conditions which do not differ so radically in the south from the north as most people think...
...news for the U.S. bomber Ferrying Command, which is flying planes and supplies across Africa to the British in the Middle East and India (see map). A Vichy attack on Free French bases in French Equatorial Africa might threaten that supply line in a dozen places...