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...long-simmering pot of Polish-Russian relations this week finally boiled over and spilled its lava-hot contents into the laps of Britain and the U.S. In Mos cow, Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov handed Polish Ambassador Tadeuz Romer a note: ". . . the Soviet Government has decided to sever relations with the Polish Government." Thus Polish-Russian amity ended with the first break between two members of the United Nations...
Customers get free birthday cakes for parties (11,000 in 1940), lollypops, advice on personal problems, sherbet that comes out of a tunnel operated by an electric eye or flows like lava out of a volcano, leaflets of poesy & precept called Clinton's Food For Thot...
Superman in the Volcano shows the wonderworker rescuing his newshen pal, Lois, from a belching crater, splicing a broken power line with uninsulated hands, blowing a sluice in the mountain so that a lava flow will miss the metropolis. There is never any suspense, since Superman always wins, no matter what happens. But his idolators (of all ages) seem satisfied to see him flex his muscles. This vicarious satisfaction has made Superman Paramount's most popular and profitable short, despite the $65,000 it costs to make each cartoon. So popular is the muscular moron that 114 female artists...
...great military volcano of the Mediterranean got ready to erupt. From Port Said to Gibraltar, steam burst from a hundred vents, and the pent-up force of military, naval and air might rumbled like subterranean lava flows...
...Harwood, dashing, eupeptic hero of the Graf Spec fight, maintained its equivocal control-unable to venture too far for fear of Axis air attack but still superior to any opposition the Italian Navy offered. Some day, any day, the first fissure of the volcano might burst and the molten lava begin to flow...