Word: uncertainities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Details to be released early next week include the exact method of registering for new rooms and choice of roommate. Still very uncertain are the exact groups that will live in the barracks and where each will live...
...Tocopherol (vitamin E) and methyl naphthoquinone (equivalent of vitamin K) complete the list of the vitamins that are available from chemical manufacture. They are still little used. The former is essential for reproduction in rats, so that it has become known as the sex vitamin, but doctors are still uncertain whether it has any such value in human beings. The latter is unique: it is not vitamin K but is equally effective in decreasing the clotting time of blood...
Germany tightened up. The news in Berlin was bad. The Axis was losing North Africa. Italy, always uncertain, was growing more uncertain as the threat of invasion increased. Göring's Luftwaffe had failed to twist the neck of the thunderbird that nested in England and clawed at Kiel, Antwerp, Cologne, Paris, Essen, Berlin. Some 90,000 people had been, removed from industrial Essen's shattered, scattered homes. War labor was at a premium; war widows were ordered into the factories...
That year was enough to change any man, and to destroy a lesser one. Uncertain and divided authority in Australia, the slow flow of men and weapons to his command, his acute sense of hostility in Washington made his first months a period of agonized frustration. His defense of Bataan had enshrined MacArthur as a hero to the U.S. people, but not to the U.S. High Command...
Night life in wartime Manhattan is terrific. War workers and service men want to hit the high spots. Men about to go into service want to drink farewell toasts. Buyers need a lift, burghers a change. Money is free, travel restricted, the present arduous, the future uncertain...