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Weeds & Seeds. In the reconversion field Congress let things grow pretty much as nature intended. It did lop off some Presidential wartime powers. Just as baffled as most U.S. people, it thrashed around in the undergrowth of price control, came up with a compromise OPA bill; no one has any idea whether it will live and bear fruit. Inexplicably it plowed under all effective housing acts. It also endorsed the silver bloc's raid on the Treasury, which will cost U.S. taxpayers plenty and further demoralize the currencies of China, India and Mexico...
...Jungle Story. Unpredictable as ever, the defenders chose to abandon their excellent beach defenses and pull back to the hills. Troops quickly worked up toward the dense undergrowth where the first Japanese opposition began. Then the battle steadied down to the usual drudging Southwest Pacific jungle fight, with the Aussies working diligently to erase each individual Jap. At some points the advance was slowed by electrically-controlled Jap minefields. But by this week the Aussies had reached the town of Tarakan and captured the island airfield two miles away...
...grey-blue figures bursts out of the thickets just above a Japanese pillbox and goes tumbling down atop it with bayonets ready to clear it. The men seem hurried, fast, awkward. About 3 o'clock we make out a long file of Chinese infantrymen crawling along through the undergrowth, still invisible to the enemy, 300 yards above them. Then they, too, disappear...
...slowest sport was made last week by 60-year-old John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, plump Lieut. Colonel, the ist Baron Brabazon of Tara. Writing in the British journal, Chess, he proposed that the starting positions of the king and queen be switched. "Away with all this opening undergrowth that is dragging down the game," cried the Baron...
...Burmese who had fled from Jap troops in the interior. The trails, sometimes less than a foot wide, trickled through the matted jungles and crossed ledges which dropped hundreds of feet into gorges. Dynamiting crews went first to blast away the heaviest barriers. Behind them bulldozers slashed into the undergrowth, rocky banks, viscous...