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This week, at 60, in the Norfolk Naval Hospital, Pete Mitscher died of coronary thrombosis. History made room for him among the U.S. Navy's heroes...
Railroads were hit from two sides. Coal-burning roads were pinched by lack of fuel to run trains. And coal-hauling roads were hit even harder. Example: the Norfolk & Western normally gets 95% of its revenue from carrying coal...
...GOODYKOONTZ Lieutenant, U.S.N. Norfolk...
...Britain he has enlisted such figures as the Duke of Norfolk, Britain's ranking Roman Catholic layman, the young, lovely, devoutly Catholic Marchioness of Lothian; Novelist Evelyn Waugh; Lord Lovat of Commando fame; and many others. From the U.S., Cardinal Spellman sent Elwes an enthusiastic letter and his personal check for $500. In London last fortnight, Elwes saw former Belgian Ambassador Hugh Gibson, who may head the U.S. drive for funds...
...worst, were the most difficult to harvest within living memory. Prayers for sunshine went unanswered. England's' wheat was a rain-beaten tangle. Under the headline "The Afflictions of Thy People," a London Daily Express bulletin read like a litany of the counties, intoned over drowned hopes: "Norfolk: . . . Corn in stook too wet to be carted. Hopes run low. Devon: Crops ruined; corn sprouting. Somerset: Corn lands waterlogged. . . . Hertfordshire: Fields are as squelching as in winter. . . . Surrey: Position serious. Crops deteriorating daily. . . . Suffolk: No work is possible. . . . Yorkshire: East Riding farmers have worked after sunshine and a drying...