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Just 17½ hours after the Marines landed on Iwo, the first invasion shots reached the U.S. They had been flown by Navy plane to Guam, sent by radio to San Francisco. News traveled even quicker, thanks to a radio transmitter which the Navy had installed on a warship a mile off the Iwo shore. Each day U.S. readers and radio listeners thus got the direct reports of newsmen on the scene...
...Unions have used the strike ballot to try to force favorable and quicker decisions from Government agencies...
...Chicago, people took more medicine for colds than in New Jersey, got well quicker. But vitamins did no good. ¶ Women were half again as likely to get colds as men. The average woman lost 4.9 days a year from colds, the average...
...nine weeks the Chicago Tribune had run colored front-page cartoons built around a campaign jingle: "BACK TO WORK QUICKER WITH DEWEY AND BRICKER." But the New Deal-hating Tribune had puzzled its readers. It had failed to find a four-color jingle lampooning Franklin Roosevelt. Last week a braying Democratic jackass appeared on Page One, bearing aloft a banner: "BACK ON RELIEF WITH THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF...
...pipes which brought in the gas, one, a thick glass peephole, protected by steel netting. It took about seven minutes for this "Zyklon B" to kill the occupants, as many as 250 at a time. Kudriavtsev was explaining: "The gas affects all parts of the organism. It is quicker when the body is warm, washed...