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...Reserve commissions ranging from ensign to lieutenant senior grade (pay and allowance: $2,199 to $3,158). Carefully checked by FBI, Navy's censors-to-be study naval regulations, hear lectures by naval intelligence officers, learn to decipher codes. Practice codes are mostly old spy communiques. Example: a harmless-looking news dispatch which dates all the way back to World War I, in which the second letter of each word spells out: "Pershing sails July...
Introduced as evidence in the U.S. Government's case were decoded messages that asked for information about weather, ship movements, hydraulic pumps, the Normandie, plane production, Swedish plane orders, data about docks, U.S. sea charts -a mass of miscellaneous questions that kept the FBI humping to find harmless but plausible fictional answers...
Colman's life with Anna Lee is pure nonsense, but perfectly harmless and done in the usual smooth Colman manner. Ronald and Anna make a charming couple, and your heart is with Ronald in his efforts to keep their happy little home inviolate against all comers attracted like bees to honey-chile Anna. Father-in-law Charles Winneger maintains a respectful neutrality, and so long as his sponging concession is assured he doesn't care much who the victimized son-in-law is. Gilbert Roland (the cad) was still in the running when we left, but our bets...
...said he had been informed that it contained zinc sulfate, galanga (a Chinese spice), bloodroot and ordinary lanolin. Dr. Stammer, no cancer specialist, had not analyzed the salve. He did not know what effect it would have, but he tried it out on himself to make sure it was harmless. Since her cancer seemed incurable, the patient agreed to give the salve a chance...
...Annals of Surgery, a group of Detroit scientists described their blood substitute, which is cheap, plentiful, harmless-and comes from the kitchen. The substance: pectin-a whitish, grainy carbohydrate, made from grapefruit, lemons or other fruit. Housewives use pectin to put jell into jellies; surgeons sometimes use it externally as a wound healer...