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Leon Henderson tried desperately to pour oil on troubled waters: he pointed out that normal consumption is 13 Ib. a year, argued that a ration of one pound every five weeks would not be so bad. (He did not point out that his statistics were based on total population, including adults who do not drink coffee and children under 15, who will get none under rationing.) But every coffee drinker knew that one cup a day represented a drastic cut. The panic buying went on, with no signs of stopping until shelves were bare. In some places anti-hoarders even...
...cannot make any but the tersest official reports until he returns for his three weeks ashore between missions. And so his philosophy necessarily is: "It will keep." The pale-faced submarine man lives a crowded, dehydrated existence which may cause him to lose as much as 20 Ib. during his three months or so at sea. But he eats well, especially in the newer, larger ships, which stock fresh fruits, frozen steaks and turkeys...
...Also a wood plane is the graceful (6,200-Ib.) Russian fighter T-18, or MIG-3, which has plywood in wings and tail as well as fuselage. A single 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled, 1,200-h.p. motor gives it a top speed of 360 m.p.h. at 13,000 ft. Its armament is reportedly very light-two 7.6-mm. machine guns, one 12.7-mm. machine...
...engines geared to each propeller. The 177 is larger than the Flying Fortress, is almost as fast (about 300 m.p.h.). The Henschel-129, a twin-engined attack plane, is the Germans' answer to the Russian Stormovik. The 129 has a speed of 275 m.p.h., can carry 770 Ib. of bombs, carries a 37-mm. cannon and two machine guns when flying against tanks, two 20-mm. cannon and two machine guns at other times...
...mostly owned-by Canada's veteran gold miner, Dome Mines Ltd. Engineers of Dome stumbled on the deposit last August when they were frantically looking for something to replace moribund gold digging. Dome will spend $250,000 for new facilities, hopes to mine over 2,000,000 Ib. of the stuff annually-roughly 6% of world production and enough to supply practically all Canadian steel mills. To Dome this is a financial break: molybdenum sells for about 80? a Ib. At peak output the company should gross over $1,600,000 a year, one-fifth as much...