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They followed the trails left by the Burmese who had fled from Jap troops in the interior. The trails, sometimes less than a foot wide, trickled through the matted jungles and crossed ledges which dropped hundreds of feet into gorges. Dynamiting crews went first to blast away the heaviest barriers. Behind them bulldozers slashed into the undergrowth, rocky banks, viscous...
...decorous Miss California, 19-year-old Jean Bartel of Los Angeles, as Miss America 1943. (Cash value of the title: $10,000 in lipstick endorsements, war-bond prizes, theatrical engagements, etc.) Of the ten finalists, she shared with Miss Minnesota the distinction of being tallest (5 ft. 8 in.), heaviest (130 lb.), and possessor of the biggest feet (8B). She tied for the biggest bust (36 in.). But she had the dignity the judges were after, proved it by posing an hour and a half for newsreels, coolly ignoring two flies which buzzed about...
Swede Anderson and Jed Goldberg, the latter hailing from Johns Hopkins, led the blocking backs. Anderson weighed in at the surprising figure of 180 pounds to be the heaviest of the experienced backs. The wingbacks were headed by Ray Eder...
...thing was certain: the Allies had raised these questions to screen their activity and to confuse the enemy, and they would write the answers. Now they, and not the Germans, wheeled up the heaviest guns in the war of nerves, just as they, and not the Germans, now marshaled the mightiest weapons in the war of arms...
This was the worst month the Long Island ever had. But even in a good month there are close to 2,000 trains late on the road, which has the heaviest commuter traffic (and lowest fares) of any railroad into Manhattan. Trains, always full, run nose to tail morning & night. But last fortnight Long Island suburbia was thrilled by a glimpse of a better future, a vision of clean, fast and comfortable trains, clicking off their schedules with streamliner punctuality. The Long Island would like to be such a railroad after the war, and said so, in a pamphlet issued...