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...this week the Mexican Senate, resentful over casual German sinkings of two Mexican tankers, voted to place its 19,500,000 countrymen at the side of 27 other United Nations-at war with the Axis. Recent were the sinkings but hoary, as modern politics go, was the steady flame of anti-Fascist fervor behind that decision. Since Dictator Benito Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia, which she never recognized, on through comradeship with Spanish Loyalist resistance to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Mexico had consistently raised her voice against the Fascist-Nazi powers...
...that June morning in 1940. Two-thirds of its people had fled. Only a thin line of tense, motionless Parisians with brimming eyes watched German tanks, guns and troops converge on the Place de l'Etoile. When Nazis clumped around the Arc de Triomphe and past the Eternal Flame sheltered above the Unknown Soldier's tomb, then swung haughtily down the broad Champs-Elysées, France's cup ran over...
...powdery oxide is sifted slowly down into a flame formed by the union of the two gases. (An oxyacetylene flame is much too hot.) The powder drops and melts on the tip of a slowly moving stick. There, drop by drop, a single large crystal is formed. It is called a boule. Two hours are required to form a 200-karat boule the size & shape of a large bullet...
Simple in principle, this process is maddeningly tricky to control. Biggest problems are maintaining: 1) absolute purity of the powder; 2) its even flow to the flame; 3) a constant temperature. For over a year Union's scientists fussed and fretted until a steady output of boules was achieved last month. This week Union is turning out all the boules the U.S. needs, thinks it can meet the rising demand singlehanded, although several other firms are now preparing to enter the field...
...Washington when the Mitchell row burst into flame. After the trial, Hap went into exile at Fort Riley, Kans., but later he began the rounds again. By this time he was a well-educated airman, with service in all the branches of the Air Corps and assorted experience as commander of flying fields, director of all the CCC camps in California, student at the best Army schools...