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...picture scoops of World War II appears this week in LIFE : pictures of the sinking by a German raider of the Egyptian motor ship Zamzam with 138 Americans aboard (two dozen of them ambulance drivers bound for the British Army in the Middle East...
...hand, Johansson created blocks so near to absolute flatness that the error was less than four-millionths of an inch. In 1923, when Jo blocks were standard throughout the machine world, Johansson came to the U.S., hooked up with Henry Ford who set him up in the Ford Motor...
...other documentaries, except a few which use professional actors to play a specific incident (e.g., a re-enacted journey to Dunkirk and back in a small motor-boat), faithfully follow the method of Spring Offensive. One, Squadron 992, takes a balloon-barrage crew through its organization and training to its ultimate destination in Scotland to protect the Firth of Forth Bridge. Another, Village School, is a heart-warming account of a day in the life of a country schoolteacher plagued with an overload of local and evacuee pupils...
Died. Louis Chevrolet, 62, the oldtime racing driver the car is named for; in Detroit. Backed by W. C. Durant, he started making Chevrolets in 1911, lost faith in the car's future, stepped out of Chevrolet Motor Co. three years later and then sold all his holdings. One of the world's great drivers, he entered his first race in 1905 as a substitute, outdrove famous Barney Oldfield, set a record of 68 m.p.h...
...Approximately the number killed every twelve months in U.S. motor accidents...