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Last week, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes gave the go-ahead for a $1,400,000 drain project over three miles long, which he hopes will eventually free $200 million of water-covered zinc-lead and manganese ores.* The tunnels will tap 80 large workings, some 700 smaller mines and claims, and will drain off most of the ten billion gallons of water at a rate of nearly nine million gallons...
...source." Aboard the Channel packet she meets a celluloid-collared washing-machine inventor from Yorkshire with plenty of British brass and some neolithic French and German ("Swy tay, bitta").* The flying Yorkshireman deserts her for a floating English blonde, a loose, friendly creature with a voice like a drain. Jeannie consoles herself with a graceful, sponging Count, who mistakes her for the Bank of England, escorts her through her favorite viands (caviar, chicken mousse, Russian salad, peach Melba and champagne at one gulp), postprandially proposes marriage. In the long run, penniless Jeannie and her hard-collared compatriot get together...
Straws for the Camel. In Asbury Park, N.J., two 14-year-olds said they had thrown some stolen money into a lake, let the police drain the lake to look for it, then led them to where it really was-on the bridge overhead. In Terre Haute, Ind., the young man who held up Detective C. D. Thompson and ran away with his trousers brightly explained: "This old head of mine just tells me to do things sometimes, and I do them...
Since the Red Cross began to bank blood, thousands of gallons of red blood corpuscles have been thrown down the drain-only the blood plasma is used. Dr. Warren Cooksey, technical supervisor of Detroit's blood bank, thought there ought to be something these discarded red cells, which constitute 46% of the whole blood, would be good for. Last winter he began supplying Detroit hospitals with batches of specially processed red corpuscles for experimental transfusions (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week Philadelphia Naval Hospital doctors, who had the same idea, reported that red-cell transfusions had proved spectacularly successful...
...found a note after yesterday's inspection saying "Remove unauthorized object in broom closet." So we flushed enito down the jo-drain- and when last been he was floating down the Charles on a piece of balcony from the house on Clympton Street which has been in the process of being wrecked ever since we arrived at Harvard...