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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chennault has lavished great personal affection and care upon a group of key young men: Colonel Clinton ("Casey") Vincent, 29, commander of the forward echelon; David L. ("Tex&") Hill, formerly an A.V.G. ace, now a lieutenant colonel, commander of the forward fighters; Lieut...
Conventional oil drilling is vertical: drill ers bore a narrow shaft down through the layer of sedimentary rock in which the oil is stored. From the small shaft surf ace they usually get only about 20% of the oil actually present...
...French kept a tight seat. To Beirut General Charles de Gaulle sent his ace mediator and Moslem expert, General Georges Catroux. In a thinly veiled reference to British imperialists, the French imperialists said: The Levantine Arabs are "under the influence of elements who are not so interested in Lebanon's independence as in pushing France...
Also undefeated are the Chicago Bears. Before he turned his team over to Co-Coaches Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos and joined the Navy, Bear-Owner George Halas had built a squad that still looks like the League's strongest. Its star is Sid Luckman, Columbia ace of 1938, whose passing record of 53 completed out of 90 attempts is 10.8% behind Baugh's (46 completed of 66 attempted...
...STARS ARE DARK -Peter Cheyney -Dodd, Mead ($2). A chilled-steel story of the unchronicled war between English and Nazi Intelligence officers, with a cashiered Briton regaining his spurs in a ruthless, double-dealing, bloodthirsty battle of guns and wits with Hitler's ace spy. The best of the new espionage yarns...