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...million base took some building. Going ashore, the landing parties got stuck in volcanic beach powder deeper and dustier than Iwo Jima's. At first, the G.I.s ate corn willie three times a day, supplemented with what they could shoot and fish. Wild goats gnawed their communication lines to pieces. Moths followed smokers and smothered out cigarets. By Christmas 1941, the Navy log read: 'All hands tireder than all hell...
...important matter was the mysterious death-by-gunshot of Siam's young King Ananda (TIME, June 17). Siamese officialdom has insisted that the death was purely accidental. Police Chief Phra Ram Indra even shot a pig before the whole Parliament to prove that the absence of powder burns on Ananda's face meant nothing...
Died. James Henry ("Jimmy") Hare. 89, veteran news photographer of the flash-powder era who took the first aerial picture of Manhattan, made closeups of five wars (Spanish-American, Russo-Japanese, Balkan, Haiti-Dominican Republic, World War I); in Teaneck...
...week came from Buffalo, where three tuberculosis societies held a joint convention.* Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute had at last discovered a method of cultivating TB bacteria, simply and quickly, in test tubes. The basis of Dubos' method is a synthetic detergent made by Atlas Powder Co. (which calls it "Tween 80") for use in cosmetics. Doctors hailed the discovery as the greatest contribution to TB research since Robert Koch first isolated the germ itself...
...dogs' fleas, ticks, lice: Dust with a 10% DDT powder-but don't use it on cats, because they lick off the dust. DDT solutions are dangerous to animals...