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...line of the Russian Army advance lies pint-sized Slovakia-and trouble for practically everybody concerned in the affairs of postwar Eastern Europe...
...Effusive, Not Explosive." One man did not leave the tortured slope. Lively, pint-sized Professor Giuseppe Imbo, director of the Vesuvian Royal Observatory and foremost authority on the volcano, clung to his tiny workshop halfway up the mountain. Through four days & nights he scarcely ate, barely slept or washed. Alone he crept to the boiling crater's edge, closely charted the lava flow, checked his seismograph by kerosene lamp...
...Pint-sized, grey-haired Arthur D. Whiteside, the 61-year-old President of credit raters Dun & Bradstreet, last week came out as a spokesman for all U.S. businessmen who fear the future. Fresh from a year as WPB's Chief of Civilian Requirements, he spoke to the potent American Retail Federation (representing 500,000 retailers) at its annual meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria. His thesis: the U.S. Government should control civilian goods production "on the basis of 1939" for two to three years after...
...pint the people to the goal...
...floor. They have given all of their own blood that they can. Meanwhile papers all over the U.S. took up the cause. Result: hundreds of donors volunteered to give blood. Cartons of plasma arrived from Boston and Washington; 300 WACs at Chanute Field, Ill. arranged to give a pint of blood apiece. At week's end the Baylor Hospital's blood bank was again in the black; the interminable transfusions began again...