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...Axis sub crippled a rickety, old armed U.S. freighter, loosed a parachute flare to illuminate the scene. A contrary wind caught the chute, pushed it back over the sub, shed sufficient light for a carrot-topped Navy gunner on the ship to pound three shells into its conning tower. Survivors insisted that the raider went down with all hands...
...tomorrow. The two have met twice before in university championship, and Bullitt has won by as eyelash each time. Don, incidentally, passed his physical test for the Marines yesterday morning. Although he was turned down when he applied the first times because of a defective left eye he crank carrot juice and milk, on the advice of the doctors, and passed with flying colors yesterday...
...workers who need extra energy should be served "Oslo meals" in mid-morning and afternoon. Originally given to Norwegian school children, Oslo meals (now used in British factories) consist of wholemeal bread, cheese, half an orange, half an apple, a raw carrot, a little less than a pint of milk...
...Three Little Pigs are busily persuading Canadians to buy defense bonds; the Seven Dwarfs will soon join them in the new series of war shorts. Three new characters made of carrots (Dr. Carrot, Carroty George, Clara Carrot) have been photo-wired to London, are advising the British that if they want to see better during blackouts, they had better munch carrots...
...R.A.F. may soon be eating Arizona carrots in preference to all other carrots on earth. The British Ministry of Foods last week impatiently cabled to University of Arizona Nutrition Chemist Margaret Cammack Smith for more details on her discovery that "Arizona carrots contain three to ten times as much carotene as the average carrot*-a discovery, said the Ministry, "of extreme interest and value...