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...Tang's favorite assignment was also "redirecting" Japanese shipping. But during a two-day air strike, Commander Richard Hetherington O'Kane and his men were given a new job: fishing downed airmen out of Truk's big lagoon. The first day was relatively uneventful: only three saved in the teeth of enemy gunfire. On the second day, soon after dawn, the Tang picked up three airmen off fortified Ollan Island; a little later, three more, seven miles to the east. Then a Navy float plane, out on a similar mission, found the sea too choppy to take...
Speaking before the war-mobilization conference of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, Harris said that "Massachusetts is a vulnerable target area and politicians in other states are doing a better job of securing contracts." According to Harris' speech, delivered before the final session of the two-day conference, the net result was that Massachusetts' industry was losing out in the race for government war-work...
...two-day period, the University of Texas had lost 130 students. By last week the University of Wisconsin had lost more than 200, the University of Maryland more than 130. Many had become apathetic about studies they doubted they would ever complete. The University of Oklahoma reported that 60% of its students had ended the fall semester with unsatisfactory grades. Other schools found interest flagging in everything but R.O.T.C...
Last week, well on the road to complete recovery, Gaines appeared in person at Chicago before doctors from all over the country, as Exhibit A in a two-day conference on ACTH sponsored by Armour & Co., first commercial producers of the hormone. His case offered the most dramatic evidence to date of the powers of the new drug. Though cautious in prediction as always, doctors studying Gaines's recovery -together with that of several badly burned children-seemed inclined to agree that ACTH (which has been hopefully tried out on virtually every ailment from tuberculosis to snakebite) might prove...
...polls today for eight House positions on the new Student Council. Voting by the preferential ballot system will take place during the lunch and dinner hours in the seven Houses; Dudley held its elections during lunch yesterday and will do so again today, spreading its voting over a two-day period because commuters cat their evening meal at home...