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...Mile Airdrome* near Port Moresby, New Guinea, is no pilot's paradise. It is a flight strip about one mile long, paved with steel mats laid on gravel. The mats are a fairly recent improvement; there was a time when the tricycle landing-geared 6-243 could not be used from X-Mile Field because the nose wheel would sink down in the loose dirt. At the lower end of the field is a graveyard of cracked-up and salvaged planes. When the bombers lift their wings over this they are quickly out over the open...
...A.M.A. calls socialized medicine. His medical ideas are no less sweeping than his other projects-he wants to doctor everybody. Bursting with health himself, Kaiser carries a medicine kit wherever he goes to "look after my folks," often stops in his plants and shipyards to offer pills to gravel-shovelers and executives. This concern goes back to his boyhood: Henry Kaiser believes his mother died too young for lack of medical care...
...garrulous, gravel-cheeked woman of enormous appetites had a hand in Russia's afflictions. If Catherine the Great (1729-96) had not urged Germans to colonize her Tartar-ravaged Volga lands, there might have been no islands of Germanic peoples pocking the lower Volga-Don region, hard behind the present battle line...
...remain a mystery until the war's end. So said Geologist Elias H. Sellards of the University of Texas last fortnight. Reason: geologists are now too busy prospecting for war-scarce minerals to investigate further. The heads, weighing roughly 100 lb. each, were found several years ago in gravel pits near Malakoff, Tex. Since faking prehistoric relics is a good-sized industry in the Southwest, geologists were startled to find the heads genuine, more startled to find that they date from the glacial era some 20,000 years ago. Significance: until recently scientists thought that man first migrated...
...material of the universe was a single clump of tight-packed sub-atomic particles-so tightly packed, in fact, that material equivalent to the present mass of the earth would barely have filled one of the present earth's good-sized gravel pits...