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...solution to the transportation problem was proposed last week by two top-flight U.S. engineers (Vladimir Yourkevitch, designer of the Normandie, and Frederick B. Woodworth, Smith-Meeker Engineering Co.'s radio chief): a covey of small (2,000-ton) cigar-shaped concrete ships, lying low in the water with about a foot of freeboard. The ships are to be without superstructure, without crews, self-powered by diesel engines, controlled by radio from a single armed mother ship (corvette or destroyer). Advantages: the ships would be tricky targets, almost invisible to a submarine or from any distance at sea; loss...
Nice Try. In Winnipeg, a cigar-chewing young man demanded admission to the Army, smoked & smoked, grew greener & greener, finally admitted...
...greater step to power was taken by a Japanese. From behind his horn-rimmed glasses and the ack-ack of his cigar smoke, Premier Hideki Tojo emerged as a character worthy of his nickname: The Razor. He, like Stalin, was tough. So were his people. He took the major political risk of the year in tackling Britain and. the U.S., and, for the year, it turned out to be a good speculation. His armies conquered Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma. Never in history had one nation conquered so much so quickly. Seldom...
Sutherland: Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin are gangsters. Hull and Churchill are a couple of cops. All right, we're in a big city-say Chicago. The cops are interested in law & order and in keeping business going. Oh, sure, they'll accept a cigar, or an apple from the fruit stand. ... All honest graft, you know-say, like Governments have trade treaties and favored-nations clauses and a little international edge here and there. But on the whole the cops really do keep peace and stop fights between the neighbors and keep the city going...
Gossip Fidler stuck by his popguns: what he had said was that blue-eyed Gene Tierney had been observed sickly smoking a cigar in hope of acclimatizing herself to her husband's stogies. Miss Tierney denied the charge...