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...Paris from the provinces marched more than 1,800 delegates of the Communist-dominated Front National. A conclave of cardinals would scarcely have been more law-abiding or (for the moment) more conservative. The first annual congress of France's most important Resistance group smoothly lock-stepped down the Communist Party's proGovernment, law-&-order line. Cried Communist Pierre Villon, F.N. secretary general: "The Tommy...
...present much of the work is being done in a specially constructed room replete with treadmill, where temperatures as low as 40 degrees below zero can be effected and the air thinned to simulate conditions of high altitude flying. There is even a special air lock leading into the chamber so that the faint can be removed without ruining the experiment...
...baffled jailers guessed that they had made a lock impression for their keys with wet cigaret papers, had formed them with a hidden sliver of nail file. Recalling the accuracy of Cook's prediction, they thought uneasily of another of his announcements...
...looked as if we were up against it," wrote Lieut. Such to his wife Eve in Beckenham, Kent, "when I suddenly remembered your lock of hair in my pocket. Yours was four-thousandths of an inch thick and dead-black. So four strands were fixed on four of my fine needles-it took me hours-and the surgeon, who is a marvelous chap, let me watch your hair sewing up chaps' nerves in the head. Today there are four men walking around with your hair in their heads...
Elastic Stop Nut Corp. of America, which paid more than $10 million in 1943 excess-profits taxes, is one of the nation's lustiest, most publicized war babies. In eye-stopping two-color ads, the company has dramatized its principal product, a patented, self-locking nut, has regularly claimed "more Elastic Stop Nuts on America's war equipment than all other lock nuts combined." But last week the company was struggling to put a stop lock on its troubles...