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...motor launch across Pearl Harbor, then a jaunt by miniature railroad, and finally by army trucks. Once arrived . . . we gave the show on a stage composed of dinner tables. When we do a show at night we usually travel in a convoy of army trucks and have a blanket night pass for the whole troupe. Several weeks ago, returning from Wheeler Field, the truck in which I was riding got lost in the blackout and strayed from the convoy...
...Nazis, the Pasteur Institute's Sicé found new public enemies to fight. He planned a successful uprising against the Vichyites entrenched in Middle Congo. When the Governor General refused to go along with the Free French, General Sicé and aides wrapped him in a blanket, threw him in a truck, dumped him over the border into the Belgian Congo...
...Santos green). Then the boys put on more heat through the South America-conscious State Department, got OPA to okay a blanket coverage of higher freight, insurance and other wartime costs. Meanwhile, retail coffee prices have jumped 20-30% since OPA's first coffee ceiling. But this week...
When he first wet-blanketed installment sales last summer (TIME, Aug. 25), FRB Chairman Marriner Eccles warned that there would be "further dampening." Last week Mr. Eccles got out his wet blanket again and dropped it on the U.S. consumer. But, like most of Washington's anti-inflation gestures, this one really soaked nobody but the rich...
...stroke up, gained on Eliot, and edged into second place. At the finish, however, Adams nosed into second, half a length behind the fleeing Elephants and just a hair ahead of Winthrop. First place Eliot's time was 7:07, while fourth place Kirkland's was 7:10, blanket finish enough for any spectator...