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Last week came what looked like the biggest strike yet. Out in the sweeping range lands west of Calgary, within sight of the Rockies, a Shell Oil Co. test drill ing crew ran into a terrific gas concentration (a sign...
...sunny Atlanta courtyard, men with only one arm and men on crutches throw baseballs at dummies of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. In another, men with hooks for hands, in airplane splints and on crutches take a half-hour calisthenic drill : "Hup, hoop, heep, one; hup, hoop, heep, two. . . ." The men whistle when a girl goes by. In the wards, they hop around playing shuffleboard and indoor golf. Some of those still in bed play darts, watch movies. A Red Cross worker brings a birthday cake with candles to a smiling 24-year-old whose leg is fastened to a weight...
...into it." In the gymnasium a muscular Negro happily plays basketball while his attendant waits (only a couple of weeks ago, he had to be held down by five men to be forcibly fed). Outside, other NPs (neuropsychiatric patients) and men with the new scars of plastic surgery drill with 50-lb. dumbbells...
...well trained and so are his officers. His military schooling began when he was eight, with at least two hours' drill a week. For all able-bodied males between 17 and 40, military service is mandatory...
...latest wartime wildcatter is H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor. Last week on his E.P. (stands for Edvardus Princeps) ranch, 65 miles southwest of Calgary, a rotary drill was gouging the earth. The Duke had joined the search for the elusive oil pool under Alberta...