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...have seen him only in the title role of Wilson* is superb as the editor, whether chattering at the edge of mental exhaustion, or putting all possible gusto into a reading of a post-Wilsonian editorial. Good shot: the commanding officer's patronizing offer to help his hosts extract a frozen ice tray, and the cataclysmic result...
...quantity of oil the Dutch can extract from Tarakan will help ease the strain on Pacific shipping. Last week in Manhattan Frank J. Taylor, president of the American Merchant Marine Institute, appraised the task of supplying our rapidly expanding forces in the Pacific. His estimate: exclusive of Navy needs, when our service personnel and fighting men reach a strength of 3,000,000, a fleet of 180 deep-laden tankers must sail from West Coast ports every month on the long, slow trek across the vast Pacific...
Sirs: I am particularly interested in one quotation which you extract from the recent Communist attack on me in a recent Soviet publication and also over the Moscow radio -a bit of "Soviet caterwauling" (to use your phrase) the justification for which is "hard to guess" (TIME, March 26). The "caterwauling" tries to identify me as an "imperialist." In support of this ridiculous theme, it charges me with wanting the kind of world unity "which Jonah enjoyed when he was swallowed by the whale." Yes; I used that phrase in my Senate speech of last...
...been discovered that octopus extract is an exceedingly efficacious remedy for relieving fatigue ... as such will be indispensable to our flying...
Note of Cheer. If high taxes and costs have put a ceiling on profits, businessmen may still extract one note of cheer: the same taxes may help to cushion the shock to profits when volume falls...