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...went hysterical over saving waste paper and immediately were advised to quit and send it to the dump. We sacrificed much usable aluminum on a like drive, only to find that it was not suitable for airplanes. We had the tin-can bungle and the canceled postage-stamp fiasco. These panicky and snap drives have plainly got the people dubious on Washington advice...
When Maymyo went the way of Yenangyaung, Belden and a British doctor were last to leave-fired the scout-cars, burned the official documents, finally lit out after the General with a tin of cheese and no water at all. He was with Uncle Joe's polyglot army of 400 all through the desperate 140-mile trek through the almost trackless jungle and over the head-hunter-infested mountains into India. He tended the wounded, chorused Christian hymns and American jazz with the Burmese nurses to keep up morale, escaped getting dysentery but lost so much weight the rings...
...proportion to its size, but what resources Africa has are precious. The Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia are the world's principal sources of cobalt, used in hard steel for toolmaking. Vanadium and manganese, also necessary for steel, come from the Gold Coast and South Africa. Tin comes from Nigeria, industrial diamonds from the fabulous Transvaal mines, rubber from Liberia, copper from the Congo...
...high school, got the jump on the older boys by forming their own Junior Commandos, influenced by the comic strips' "Colonel Orphan Annie," currently leading her commandos against enemy agents. At Detroit's Boys Club playground more than 100 youngsters, dressed in shorts, sneakers and tin helmets, and carrying wooden guns, went through commando drill...
...above the pre-war normal. A sentimental, serious ballad, I'll Walk Beside You, has sold 750,000 copies-more than twice the biggest popular-song sale. The only slump has been in the songs and dance tunes peddled by Charing Cross Road (London's Tin Pan Alley). Phonograph companies, doing a 60% above normal business, cannot cope with the increased demand for classical disks. Most spectacular rise of all-400%-has been in the sales of miniature scores (pocket-size reductions of symphonic scores, usually bought only by musicians, music students and zealous amateurs...