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...When the Canadian was brought in, his artery was severed by a bullet and his leg and foot were cold and white. We slipped in a glass tube. . . . The blood started to flow and the foot got warm and pink." Thus, in the antiseptic gloom of a casualty clearing station in Belgium, 30-year-old Major William Thornton Mustard last week described a new surgical trick which he hopes will borrow time for many a war-mangled limb, many a life...
This was the climactic battle of the west. This was Ike Eisenhower's answer to the gloom-mongers who had said there would be nothing big on the western front until the end of winter...
...lifeboat edged out of the gloom. Its frightened crew climbed ashore at Matane, Que. Able Seaman Sidney Langmead told what had happened...
...tired of trying to work through the Roman dusk by candle and carbide light.* One afternoon when Britain's High Commissioner, prim Sir Noel Charles, was to call, Visconti-Venosta personally ordered every candle and sputtering carbide light in the Palazzo Chigi doused. Sir Noel walked into Stygian gloom, groped his way through the Chigi's interminable passages and waiting rooms, conferred ghost-to-ghost with Visconti-Venosta. whose face never cracked a smile. Next day Visconti-Venosta wrote Sir Noel a note reviewing the discussions: "As we were saying yesterday in complete darkness. . . ." Sir Noel...
...Gear for Autos. The gloom was slightly relieved by George Christopher, president of Packard. He predicted little reconversion unemployment for Detroit because 1) plants will be busy on Japanese war work, 2) workers will be needed for the reconversion job itself...