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When funds and technical workers can be found (probably not until after the war) the Library's priceless paper reels will be put back into projection form...
...Adams family of Massachusetts . . . owns a priceless draft of the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson in his own hand. Recently Archibald MacLeish wrote, asking if he could borrow it for display in the Library of Congress. . . . He got no reply. So he wrote again, saying he would be glad to send an armed guard for it. Still no reply. MacLeish wrote a third time, saying he would not only send an armed squadron but would insure the document for $100,000. This likewise went unanswered. MacLeish gave up. . . . [Then] he received a penny postcard. It advised him that...
This week the Air Forces revealed that the P-38 also has another priceless quality. It is also capable of long-range cruising, an attribute never found in European fighters...
...Department," a bottle of ink-eradicator, and twelve reams of graph paper. The ink-eradicator and the graph paper I was able to fob off on some Woolworth jobber who was loitering around the Square, but my better judgment whispered to me that the tome "Dream Department" was a priceless item, not to be offered for blood or money...
Adolf Hitler told his people last September that the conquered Ukraine in Russia was a priceless prize of war, rich in farmlands and factories, already a scene of reconstruction and exploitation. Last week, as the Wehrmacht reeled farther & farther back into the Ukraine (see map), the Germans were fast losing this vast (172,000 sq. mi.), heavily populated (31,000,000) territory, and the Russians were regaining one of their greatest centers of wealth...