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...Weave cloth (an art unknown among Siberian primitives) on a loom much like that of the Polynesians...
Since Marshal Timoshenko's old opponent, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, had the advantage of opening the attack, it meant little that the Russians were outnumbered at first. What did loom darkly were the successive indications of the Moscow dispatches: first the censors allowed a guess that Bock was testing Timoshenko's "remaining manpower," then a reference to advancing Nazi forces, finally the outright statement from Moscow that the Germans had the advantage in numbers of men, tanks, planes. Thus Berlin, was probably telling the truth in a communique claiming the recapture of a, bridgehead between the Donets...
Masslinn (for mass of lint) is a new cotton cloth which looks, feels and launders much like any other cotton cloth, but conceals this fundamental difference: it is made without a spindle or a loom. Cotton web oozing softly from the carding machine is treated with an adhesive (still an unpatented secret), fed back into machinery resembling a paper mill, from which it emerges as a low-cost cotton cloth capable of giving other cotton goods some formidable competition...
...submarine, watched it fire two torpedoes in full view of the crew. A rescued seaman from the second ship had to swim two and a half miles, diving under patches of flaming oil, before he was picked up. >Sailors rowing away from a doomed ship saw a Swedish freighter loom up in the night, get caught in a cross-fire of shells from two subs and catch fire. As she tried to flee, the Swede almost ran the lifeboat down...
...penalized 5% per month up to a total of 25%; are also liable to a $10,000 fine, a year in jail.) These people were postponing the war, putting off the day of reckoning. When next year's taller taxes loom, they will still be whittling away at this year...