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...Haugland flipped a coin with an Australian correspondent for a seat on an outgoing U.S. Army bomber. The A.P. man won. The plane used up its gasoline bucking a tropical storm; Haugland and the crew bailed out at 13,000 feet. Eight days later two of the crew reached Port Moresby. Within 20 days all but Haugland and the navigator had straggled...
...average citizen, this sharp rise in cash has the Treasury Department worried. For one thing, nobody knows where all the money goes after it leaves the mint. Best official guesses: 1) into bigger payrolls, including the huge all-cash soldier pay; 2) into a new crop of coin-operating devices; 3) into hoarding...
...will also save a lot of headaches for the U.S. Treasury, which has worked on nickel-less nickels for almost a year. Last February a 50% silver-50% copper nickel was tested, wouldn't go down most coin-operated machines. The new nickels work fine...
...Hull calls the Japanese war party "Dillinger" for short. He has the "prevision of a frontiersman" and his "prudent judgments" are the obverse, in State Department coin, of the President's driving self -confidence. Mr. Roosevelt kicked over the traces with his undiplomatic dagger-in-the-back reference to Mussolini. But "18th-Century" Sumner Welles, who was vexed about the dagger, is "erroneously regarded by left-wing intellectuals in this country as a 'reactionary' force in foreign policy." Davis & Lindley prove their point by revealing that while U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were at their worst...
...HIGH WINDOW - Raymond Chandler-Knopf ($2). Tough but intelligent Private Detective Marlowe, hired to trace a valuable coin missing from a California collection, stays to solve murders, past & present, in a wealthy and belligerent clan. Excellent writing, fantastic characters and shrewd detecting place it among the best...