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Announced the Admiralty last week: The U-570 was a pretty good submarine. Manned by a specially trained British crew and renamed the Graph, it had made several successful trips for the Royal Navy, destroyed one real German-run U-boat, scored hits on several other ships...
...development may raise its estimated potential. In 1943 only 212 million bbl. were added to the proven U.S. oil reserves through the discovery of new pools. West Edmond will probably give 1944 a better record. But geologists look back to 1937. That was the year the new oil-discovery graph line began to turn down from a peak of 929 million bbl. It has trended downward ever since...
Those parts of the U.S. that got flu first had less flu last week. But on the newly flu-struck West Coast, and in parts of New England, the flu graph went up steeply, while Public Health Service figures showed that throughout the U.S. deaths from combined influenza and pneumonia were rising. In New York City, deaths from pneumonia rose from 160 to 235 in one week. The week's most glamorous flu sufferers: Hedy LaMarr, Marlene Dietrich...
...four-minute mile is possible. So reported Dr. Alfred W. Francis, research chemist and amateur trackman, in Science. Using a plot of average speed in meters per second against the logarithm of the distance, he drew a graph of 17 record marks, from 200 meters to 10 miles. The point for one mile was well below Arne Andersson's present record: 4:02.6. Dr. Francis, whose own record for the mile is 4:38, figures...
...Facts. A favorite May slogan is: "You've got to spend money to make money." May does. He floods businessmen with 10,000 pieces of direct mail daily. One of his best mailings is a persuasive, graph-studded pamphlet called "May Facts." (Typical May fact: After calling in the May Co., an unnamed war plant increased production...