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Around the Sub Base at Pearl Harbor, "Mush" Morton and the Wahoo were a legend. Mush, Kentucky-born, was a solid man with a shock of blond hair, a wrestler's shoulders and a jaw like a boulder. The Wahoo was a lean, sinister submarine...
Bull wheels turned again at Norman Wells. New wells came in. Tractors cat-walked along the timbered slopes and the boulder-flooded valleys. Trucks labeled "Canol" (for "Canadian Oil") labored up new-made roads. Men sweated their way through mosquitoes and muskeg; swatted themselves for warmth through the winter. By this year's end, Canol's builders hope to have the pipelines and the refinery in operation. But men who watched wondered in what good time, and at what cost...
Katharine Cornell, on the porch of her home on Martha's Vineyard, heard a call for help, traced it to a ravine, where she found an Episcopal clergyman. Climbing there, he had brought a boulder down on him and broken his leg. Actress Cornell whipped up a makeshift splint, applied it to the ministerial leg, briskly bundled the cleric off to the hospital in her station wagon...
From Los Angeles' suburbs to east of Phoenix, from the Mexican border to Boulder City, Nev., stretches this waste of land that only the Army could want. Where a year ago there were only parched hamlets hundreds of miles apart, now there are seven major camps, dozens of other establishments, nine airdromes, 42 landing strips, five major hospitals. Across the desert swirl 25,000 general-purpose vehicles (jeeps, etc.) and 2,500 tactical vehicles (tanks...
...convention at Montreal the CCF of militant Quebec Province adopted a resolution demanding public ownership of all power resources in Canada. The resolution singled out the controversial $106,000,000 Shipshaw development in the hinterlands of Quebec (world's largest power dam, with the possible exception of Boulder), as a "scandalous exploitation of Canadian resources," made it a leading argument for public ownership, a vital campaign issue in the next election. To steer clear of interference with the war program, CCF tempered its resolution to read...