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...path 500 miles wide up & across the Atlantic. And for six days U.S. meteorologists clocked its forward progress, studied its habits, and charted its course (see SCIENCE). When it hit North Carolina's ocean bulge on the seventh day and started up the Eastern Seaboard, ripping like a circular saw, they foretold its movements almost to the mile and hour...
Terse. In Kansas, a circular letter advertising flour observed that the Lord's Prayer was written in 71 words, the first chapter of Genesis in 800, the Gettysburg Address in 267, but "the OPA uses 2,500 words to announce a reduction in the price of cabbage seed." Vocational Guidance. In Manhattan, Selective Service Director McDermott insisted the psychoneurotic discharge from the Army did not necessarily mean mental deficiency, declared: "I know of scores of cases of men earning $5,000 to $40,000 a year who were rejected ... on a diagnosis of psychoneurosis...
...Scotland's prewar 158 million gallons in reserve, Ridley's Wine and Spirit Trade Circular noted, 30 millions had been drunk abroad, 28 millions drunk at home, 11 millions blitzed by enemy bombers, four millions lost by evaporation. Only 85 million gallons (all of it choice and matured) remain in bond. Warned Ridley's soberly...
...Stanley began to tinker with tools at five. At ten he built a toy car which he drove around the streets of Berkeley, Calif.; at twelve he invented a miniature racing auto 19 inches long. Powered by a gas engine and guided by a cable, it sped around a circular course at 107 m.p.h. At 17, as head of his own company, Hiller Industries, Inc., Stanley was running a $100,000 midget racing auto business. He learned to fly when he was so small that he had to sit in his father's lap to reach the controls. With...
...never slackened in fury. By Thursday night the Resistance forces held not only the islands of Saint-Louis and La Cite, but the Hotel de Ville, the Palais de Justice, the mairies of all arrondissements and the suburbs of Boulogne, Issy and Chatillon. The Germans held a large circular area bounded by the Eiffel Tower, the Invalides, the Gare du Quai-d'Orsay, the Place de la Concorde, the Madeleine and the Grand Palais. They also had strong points at the Gare d'Austerlitz, the Gare du Nord and the Porte d'Orleans. What was holding...