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...Amethyst get into dangerously shallow water. Below the boom, she met a patrol boat; Kerans decided to speed by as close as possible, thus give the smaller enemy craft a minimum chance to rake his decks. The Amethyst scraped by with a bare 18 inches to spare. Then a junk without lights loomed up ahead and was sliced in two. Then the biggest guns of all, at Woosung, were safely passed, and the Amethyst was in the clear. In the wide mouth of the Yangtse, she met H.M.S. Concord and the sweaty, half-starved crew of the Amethyst cried openly...
Died. Hymie ("Loud Mouth") Levin, 53, junk dealer's son who became Al Capone's chief "collector" in Chicago during Prohibition, later teamed up with Jacob ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik in the red-light and gambling rackets; after long illness; in Chicago...
Agnes Serpas, 29, had already had five children (the fifth delivered by Dr. Heiman) without any trouble, explained her husband, Junk Collector Charles Serpas. She was a stocky woman of 5 ft. 2 in. and 140 Ibs., and "she used to be up & around doing a big washing three days after she had a baby," he said. Last month, nearing the end of her sixth pregnancy, Mrs. Serpas felt nauseated and went to Dr. Heiman. He gave her some pills, told her he would come to her house next...
Hardly had the autoworkers gotten theirs when the wage board pierced its ceiling again: it approved a 15% increase for more than 20,000 East Coast shipyard workers. At week's end, WSB seemed to be getting ready to junk the whole idea of a 10% raise limit, approve any existing escalator clauses, and instead control wages on a cost-of-living basis...
...even new kinds of thinking that only computing machines can do fast enough. There is, in addition, a very special headache. A missile cannot be flight-tested by a human pilot who lives to make his report. Once the missile is fired, it is gone forever. It turns into junk on the desert or sinks under the sea. So the missilemen have developed other methods of testing their single-flight birds...