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...week Air Forces engineers were glad to announce that they had a new emergency runway material with the essential advantages of steel mats. Known officially as PBS (Prefabricated Bituminous Surface), it consists of a layer of cloth between two layers of tar-soaked paper. It can be carried in one-tenth the airplane space and laid, by machine, almost twice as fast. Spread over a rolled earth surface, the durable, water-repellent covering sustains the heat and shock of landings with little damage, bogs down only when subsurface moisture is extreme...
After four days Patton's men, by hanging on to the northwest and southwest corners, digging in under the casemates of the big guns which could not be depressed to meet them, had hold of about one-tenth of the position...
Next morning, for hundreds of miles, the eastern U.S. looked like the scene of a giant's Halloween. The storm warnings had served their purpose-the hurricane did but one-fifth the damage, took less than one-tenth of the lives claimed by the 1938 storm. But along every bay and inlet boats of all descriptions lay smashed, high & dry in streets, backyards and fields. Tens of thousands of trees were down; many a householder had to chop his way out. Some 300,000 telephones were out of service; and for many miles the power lines festooned the streets...
...lard Godbout, from whose Cabinet Bouchard had gone to the Senate, was sorely embarrassed. In Ottawa, a French Canadian member of Mackenzie King's Liberal Government tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister of Justice: ". . . a group of from one-tenth to one-half of one percent of the population [of Quebec] should not be taken too seriously. . . . Senator Bouchard is one of those who assert that a spade should be called a spade but sometimes . . . he is apt to refer to such an implement as a steam shovel...
...marked contrast to peacetime Junes, when an average of 50 members of the graduating class--often one-tenth of the seniors--were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, only seven of this year's graduates were included in the elections announced on Tuesday. They are John J. Delaney, Jr., of Arlington, Robert H. Drucker, of Wilmette, Ill., Daniel B. Feer, of Brookline, David B. Green, of Brookline, Paul Mandelstam, of Allston, John J. Shea, of Jamaica Plain, and Philip Troen, of Portland, Maine...