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Assault on Strong Points. Next morning, Willkie was again seated at an important breakfast. This time at the Coconut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel, he was principal speaker at the opening of Los Angeles' War Chest drive. Again Willkie was an added starter, as the breakfast had been long planned. It was not a political speech, but it gave him an opportunity to address 1,000 influential Angelenos...
Requests and Rations. It was not the first U.S. use of penicillin for a civilian (among several hundred who have received it were some victims of the Boston Coconut Grove fire), but it was by far the most publicized. Within a few hours after the nation's press had picked up Patricia's story, requests for penicillin began to pour into WPB, the Army, the White House. Only a few applicants, with diseases for which penicillin has been proved effective,* got it (one who did died nonetheless...
...destroyer sliced it in two. The aft portion went up in flames. Kennedy rescued two of his crewmen, clung to the bow with them and eight others for twelve hours, towed one of the men on a three-hour swim to a small island. There they lived on coconuts for three days, then swam to a larger island, where friendly natives found them the next day, carried back to the Navy base an S O S scratched on a coconut. Back in Hyannis, Mass., informed of his son's rescue, father Joseph commented: "Phew...
...candy, Alayam is combined with peanuts, pecans, coconut or pineapple. No ordinary confection, it tests high as food, rich in carbohydrates (it has up to 48% sugar). It is not yet in commercial production, but Professor Ware hopes it will "become a standard item of food after...
Concentration in the Air. Most ominous sign of Japanese preparations was their sudden increase of air power in the whole area. Reconnaissance uncovered the fact that the much-bombed Munda field was stronger than originally thought and consisted of several runways, not just one. The Japs had kept coconut treetops suspended on camouflage nets while grading runways underneath. This field nested a new sting. On one occasion 25 Zeros reared up, spread out like the head of a cobra and struck...