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...Davis Cady, of Diamond Match Co., finally found the answer. It looks like an ordinary kitchen match, but it is coated with a chemical (formula: still secret) which sheds water. Diamond is now producing 10,000,000 a day and G.I.s in water-filled foxholes have found them a godsend. Even after an eight-hour soaking, the match lights readily...
Goebbels Gobble. The German reaction was equally characteristic. If the new weapon was of no use to Rommel on the beachhead, it was a godsend to Goebbels on the radio...
When he tested his oil mine in Franklin last week,. Ranney had as backers the Pennzoil Co. and nearly a score of other companies and oilmen. They believe that the Ranneywell may be a godsend to the dwindling U.S. oil supply. Ranney believes that it could tap 60% of the 6,364,000,000 bbls. in the Pennsylvania region unobtainable by previous methods...
...Could copies be sent airmail?" suggested John Snell of Hawaii's Equal Rights Commission. "TIME is a godsend to us out here in the middle of the Pacific. "And an Army Major has been paying us $1.00 a week ever since October to fly him as many TIME pages as we could cram into an envelope under the two-ounce limit for airmail...
...have a plan, Bill. It will keep the pastures green; and, what's more, it'll fill that Ivy-decked coliseum seven days a week. And what a Godsend it should be for that athletics-for-all program that's been so close to your bosom these many years. I guarantee that you'll get more men out on the sward of the Stadium than ever swarmed upon it during a Heptagonal track meet. And, to top it all. Bill, my plan is long-range, a sure-fire investment. Why, in two years this plan of mine will gross...