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...MIDGET MURDERS-Craig Rice -Simon & Schuster ($2). A lively and unorthodox Chicago trio, Lawyer Malone and a young-couple-about-town, finally snare the slayer of a diabolically minded dwarf who badly needed killing. Genially ribald dialogue and a cleverly concocted plot...
Details of this "unique" job are a military secret, but, in broad outline, it is a mass-production method for building cargo ships that should dwarf World War I's Hog Island. Higgins' swelling backlog includes a minimum 200 Liberty ships-the biggest single order the Maritime Commission ever placed...
Even hard-boiled Collectors of Internal Revenue, who are not easily fazed, were fazed on "T" (for Tax) Day. Thousands of little wage-earners, filing their first returns under the new tax law's dwarf-high exemptions ($750 for single persons), owed no tax at all. Hundreds of them paid up just the same. They sent in checks ranging from $5 to $100-unsolicited gifts to the Government, to help...
...about the first century A. D., Korea sent a cultural mission to Japan to civilize the naked people. Naturally the Chinese and Koreans looked upon them as "dwarf barbarians". Nevertheless, long before Hitler, the samurai got the contemptuous idea that they were a divine and superior race so that they must rule the universe...
...farms and factories, its resources, its possibilities, its culture, its dispossessed. In that issue the statistics of strength were so many they ran over the top of the page. They gushed up like the oil of Texas: the U.S. had mines, trained men, machines, land, power & light to dwarf the rest of the world. All the charts showed a satisfying line in which U.S. production of something shot way above anybody else's; there would be a little wavy line way down at the bottom of the page for the rest of the world and a curve swooping right...