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Girl No. 217 (Artkino), after a nine-day ride in a sealed, packed boxcar, is lined up with other Russian civilians in a German railway depot. German civilians stroll along the line, lifting a Russian chin now & again with an umbrella handle, for closer scrutiny. The Germans are shopping for slaves. Girl 217 (Elena Kuzmina) goes to a pudgy, henbrained grocer's wife and shares a room with another Russian slave, who is trying, in his scant spare time, to keep up his scientific work...
...population and 30% of the Negroes were found to have syphilis. All with infections less than four years old (older cases were considered non-catching) were ordered to report for treatment at hospitals, health centers or to a private doctor. Some 2,000 had already been admitted for the nine-day rapid treatment. Health officials, watching Birmingham as a pattern, looked forward to a nationwide fight against syphilis...
...just came back from a nine-day bivouac. That means living in the field for nine days and nights. When I got back, there was a letter here waiting for me from my wife. In it was a clipping . . . telling about you and the Tank and Body Builders Union and what great work you were doing towards the war effort. I am damn proud to say that I am a member of such a Union as that...
Very much the worse for his 47-day journey through New Guinea's tangled jungle, Vern Haugland (TIME, Oct. 1) awoke last week from a nine-day delirium, smiled and said: "Tell my mother I've been real sick...
Thus Kaiser emerged from his nine-day whirlwind tour of Washington with a signal victory, gained only after bitterest battle with all the it-can't-be-done experts (TIME, Aug. 10). He had to convince Nelson, Nelson's advisers, two Senate committees; he had to beat down the Army & Navy, which still do not see where he can get the materials. But behind him he had the pressure of an enthusiastic public opinion...