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Clark Gable, major in the Army Air Forces until his discharge last June, finally went back to movie making. His first picture: This Strange Adventure. His role: merchant mariner. His leading lady: Greer Garson...
...Normal," Professor Hooton calls his book; in it he describes the findings of the Grant Study of the Hygiene Department, which for the past six years has been making observations on the "normal" young man with funds from the Grant Foundation maintained by W. T. Grant, New York merchant. Professor Hooton did not participate in the study, and his account, which he has summarized for the press, is preliminary, non-technical, and written with the objectivity of an outsider look...
...scuttling at Scapa Flow. Her two largest combat vessels still afloat were cruisers, the Prinz Eugen and the Nürnberg. They signed off by shelling Copenhagen, then gave up to the British in Copenhagen harbor-along with scores of smaller warships and 160,000 tons of merchant shipping. Several destroyers surrendered in Norway...
...Slashed the Merchant Marine program...
...quantity of oil the Dutch can extract from Tarakan will help ease the strain on Pacific shipping. Last week in Manhattan Frank J. Taylor, president of the American Merchant Marine Institute, appraised the task of supplying our rapidly expanding forces in the Pacific. His estimate: exclusive of Navy needs, when our service personnel and fighting men reach a strength of 3,000,000, a fleet of 180 deep-laden tankers must sail from West Coast ports every month on the long, slow trek across the vast Pacific...