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...Alley tunes, thumped and wheezed from a piano and an accordion, split the African darkness. The racket came from a rococo Moorish villa which soldiers in the area call "Souk*-el-Spaatz." But the concerts are only occasional. Most of the time Souk-el-Spaatz is a silent hive of conspiring and conferring men. It is the headquarters of the air war being waged by the Allies in Tunisia...
High-Power Panhandling. To keep this ecclesiastical hive humming requires a paid staff of 42 people, including seven other ministers. It costs (including debt payments) more than...
...have invented a trap to collect pollen by the ton: a screen doorstep in front of a beehive, which brushes pollen off the hairy legs of bees and drops it into a box below. As much as 70 lb. of pollen can be gathered each year from a single hive...
...They like to cite statistics on its vastness: five city blocks long and two wide . . . six and a half acres of window panes . . . 9,000 heavy machines, tools and fixtures installed . . . "here, just a year ago, stood a corn field." . . . Last week it was a whirring, clanking hive of millers, cutters, pressers and riveters (see cut). Eighty percent of the machines which Chrysler needs to step up its tank-production rate to 15 per day have already been installed. Meanwhile Chrysler has just received a big order for a new medium tank of later design, and in order...
...sullen summer days, when rain falls and clouds gloom over Long Island, the Army's Mitchel Field is a hive of brown, earthbound pursuit planes. With their tails low, their tapered fuselages and wings tilting toward the grey sky, the P-40s on the grass and the paved tarmac look unnaturally still; they seem always to be straining for release and flight...