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...Navy's device, like that of Caltech's Physicist Alexander Goetz (TIME, June 7), uses chemicals to remove salts from the water. Equipment consists of a packet of chemicals the size of a deck of cards and three plastic bags resembling hot-water bottles. Sea water is mixed with one of the chemicals in the first bag, which converts the salts in the water into other compounds. These are then precipitated by another chemical and filtered out in the second and third bags. The final product: clear, fresh, slightly sulfuric water...
...R.A.F. dropped an average of at least 10,000 tons of bombs on German objectives each month. In the last week of May, in four raids on Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen and Wuppertal, the R.A.F. dropped about 6,500 tons. Said Sir Arthur after Dortmund got its packet of 2,000 tons: "In 1939 Göring promised that not a single enemy bomb would reach the Ruhr. Congratulations on having delivered the first 100,000 tons on Germany to refute him. The next 100,000, if he waits for them, will be even bigger and better bombs, delivered...
...this advice many a Victory gardener said "Hmmm," thoughtfully purchased another packet of lettuce seeds...
...long journey from London, and they were many days old. But they still were full of the only news fit for a Briton of Sir Henry's stamp. His heavy face intent, his huge body hunched and at ease, Sir Henry took up the oldest issue in the packet. He read it through, column by column, then proceeded to the next issue, and the next, in scrupulous chronological sequence. Refreshed, restored and as well up on events as a man so far from London could be, Sir Henry returned to his job of building the army which...
Target is a full, authentic, minute record of an R.A.F. bombing raid on Germany-from the telltale packet of negatives parachuted to English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors are those happy few to whom Britain and the democracies owe so much: the members of the R.A.F. There is not a ham in the cast...