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...Lithium, lightest and most active of metals, has been put to work. Its new job: snatching oxygen from the atmosphere in furnaces for toughening steel gun parts, aircraft propeller blades, tiny altimeter gears and other tools...
...schoolyard, her secretary always three paces behind. The secretary would advance to her superior's side only on a curt signal, when Colonel Booth had an idea she wanted to discuss. On one hot day, when the SS men gave the internees permission to put on their lightest clothing, Colonel Booth appeared in lemon-yellow cotton bed pajamas, her grey-peppered brown hair hanging almost to her waist, her bonnet still perched on her head...
...Ohio politico was prepared for what the "listless" voters did at the polls. Republicans gained eight seats in the House, the biggest turnover in any State; handsome, grey-thatched Republican Governor John W. Bricker won by 375,000, the biggest majority ever given an Ohio governor. It was the lightest vote since the early '20s, but it was not the Republicans who stayed away. The G.O.P. had gained in previous off years, but never this much...
While cries of patriotism were rising to a new crescendo and Dorothy Lamour was in our midst selling War Bonds for victory, the primary elections were considered unimportant. Yesterday's vote was the lightest in recent history. The success of the Bond sales was excellent, but a larger turnout at the polls would have been equally encouraging. For the handling and the management of money that people so willingly contribute to the nation through taxes and bonds is more important than the general reaction shows...
...Crimson, fifteen pounds a man shy of the Badgers, are the next heaviest crew, but the Varsity average has dropped about three pounds since the Rowe Cup. Johny Richardson at 168 is the lightest, and Captain Ted Lyman at 190 the heaviest...