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Early this winter we moved Stoyan one step nearer his goal, sent him to Cairo as a correspondent accredited to the Mediterranean theater. As soon as he reached Egypt he began practicing parachute jumps, to be ready at a moment's notice to be dropped on his native land. In one of these jumps he fractured his left foot, and for a while he was heartbroken at the thought that the accident might cost him the assignment in the Balkans...
...wake of departed Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (see p. 12), London last week bandied two reports: 1) that the Polish exiled Government and Soviet Russia are much nearer agreement than surface difficulties indicate; 2) that something very like a new, sense-making League of Nations is shaping...
...last. lab period we graduated from frogs to still-warm rats. Working on something which catches colds and looks somewhat like ourselves inside makes us feel much nearer to medicine and our goal. The latest contest, however didn't make that goal seem very close. Some of those solutions you've spilled in the quant lab are quite potent, aren't they, Waller? Or don't you like legs on your trousers in the springtime
...geologists: that the great Gulf oil strata of Texas and Louisiana sweep eastward clear to the Atlantic and northward along the coastline, perhaps all the way up to Maryland. It will be years before that hope is finally confirmed or disproved. But meanwhile the southeastern boom fosters a nearer-term political purpose for the rugged individualists of the U.S. oil industry. As Oil Czar Ickes backs his unpopular Arabian pipeline (TIME, Feb. 14, et seq.) with dire warnings that the U.S. "cannot oil another war," the industry can use every new oil strike at home as an argument against...
Actually the infantryman of today comes nearer to being a man of all weapons. Except for the airplane, the tank and the artillery, the infantry uses most of the weapons in the arsenal of a modern army: not only the rifle and bayonet but the Tommy gun, machine gun, mortar, hand and rifle grenades, bazooka, flame thrower, good-sized anti-tank artillery...