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With 920 students signing up to give a pint of their blood to the Red Cross Bank, and hundreds of others enrolled for activities ranging from "confidential war work" to first aid courses, the War Service Committee last night announced the results of its questionnaire, distributed at registration, and tabulated during the past week by volunteer workers...
...pint-sized gun that shoots a spray of molten metal is saving U.S. wartime industry hundreds of thousands of dollars and hours of labor. The Army & Navy have 750 of these hot-metal guns in use this week. Aircraft makers are using thousands. The new tool is indispensable in 1) the manufacture of airplanes; 2) their maintenance by the Army & Navy; 3) the repair of ailing machinery which, owing to the dearth of metals and machining facilities, would be scrapped or stand idle...
...meal served in a plant should contribute at least one-third of the worker's daily food requirements, which are: at least one pint of milk; two helpings of potatoes; two helpings of fruit, one a citrus fruit or tomato; two vegetables, one leafy, green or yellow; one egg; one helping of meat, fish or poultry; a cereal dish (whole grain); whole-grain or enriched white bread at every meal; and butter or fortified oleomargarine...
...guns consume half a pint of alcohol in every pound of powder. This year the U.S. needs an estimated 300,000,000 gallons of industrial ethyl alcohol-300% of its normal supply...
Destiny's agent was a Bavarian officer named Franz Hipper: an opportunistic Raeder recognized the agent. For his superior's approval he worked with selfless care, charted courses down to a minnow's fin, was everything that a junior officer should be-except in his pint size. Franz Hipper often boomed to his bantam favorite: "When I become an admiral, I'll make you my chief of staff...