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Deadline Ahead. Against the world's titanic misery, which would easily dwarf even the biggest achievement, UNRRA has achieved a great deal. It has helped feed, clothe and repatriate some 5,000,000 of 6,500,000 D.P.s in Allied Europe, has channeled some 2,000,000 tons of food, fuel, medicine, machinery, second-hand locomotives and other supplies, has begun its rehabilitation task by distributing hoes, plows and draft horses to destitute peasants of two continents. UNRRA's biggest rehabilitation project was progressing at breakneck speed in China, where U.S. Seabees and 150,000 Chinese laborers last...
Most exciting shot: Bergman at the piano singing French-Creole songs to Cooper in a manner to make less stalwart he-men wilt. Most amusing tableau: the head-pivoting "parade" of beruffled Clio, followed by her grim mulatto maid, followed by an impish dwarf...
Said the Committee: "It is a giant creation to dwarf the Colossus at Rhodes. It will stand, like the pyramids, to challenge the minds and hearts of men for countless ages...
...Army, which hopes to cut G.I. military chores to a minimum, hopes to have its sport program going full blast in 30 days. If British, French, Polish, Dutch, Australian and New Zealand troops join in as expected, the program may lead to Allied championships that will dwarf the peacetime Olympic Games...
Among the major discoveries of the year reported by the Harvard Observatory in this capacity of announcement agency for observatories in the Western Hemisphere, were Van Biesbroeck's finding of a star with the lowest known candle power; Luyten's finding of a pair of white super-dense dwarf stars; the discovery of comets by observers in Finland and New Zealand; and the discovery by Kuiper o fan atmosphere of methane and ammonia on Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn...