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...embattled American Volunteer Group broke up in China last July 4 some of the pilots came home, some donned the khaki and wings of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Last of these combat pilots still on duty in China was young (25), bronzed Major Frank Schiel of Prescott, Ariz...
Christmas 1942 would be a festival of strange and surprising changes. Phoenix, Ariz., called off its annual party for needy children (usually attended by 5,000): it could find no one to invite. In Fairview Village, a suburb of Cleveland, the community Christmas present would be a garbage collection: for lack of manpower there had been none for six weeks. In San Antonio's Mexican churches the five-hour Los Pastores, with its Indian ritual and dances, would be curtailed: the most agile dancers were dancing with bayonets...
...early morning after Thanksgiving in Phoenix, Ariz., sounded like the old days...
...William S. Murray, now of Indium Corporation of America, went to work on it in 1924. At that time only one gram was available and it was worth considerably more than platinum. Dr. Murray found that indium could be extracted commercially from a zinc ore mined near Kingman, Ariz. Last year the potential supply was figured at more than two million grams (4,400 Ib.) annually, at a cost of about 40? an ounce. At the rate that it is being put to work, much of that will be needed soon...
...wheel in a New Mexico "sporting house" filled with painted ladies whose names are strange to him-Midnight Rose, Drowsy Dolly, Fleabitten Daisy, Rowdy Kate. Gaye Oldaker's lady friend, Tacey Cromwell, runs the establishment. But after Nugget turns up Tacey moves to the copper town of Bisbee, Ariz., where she hopes to leave her "sporting" life behind her, to marry Gaye and make a home for Nugget. The family circle is completed when a miner is killed and his wildcat daughter, Seely, is taken in by Tacey...