Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a report by the Army's Chemical Warfare Service told the sad, but not scandalous, facts: 38 officers and enlisted men had been killed and 127 wounded by faulty mortar fire; the casualties were caused by only 63 misfirings out of some 4,000,000 rounds; the defects were in the fuzes, not in the shells supplied by the Garssons...
According to the most coherent (or least sensational) report, Tito's mystery began in the village of Kmrovec, Klanjec county, on the border of Slovenia and Croatia. Klanjec is situated in a region famed chiefly for plump wheat, fat geese, burgeoning plum trees (essential to the manufacture of rakija, Tito's favorite drink), and a sprinkling of minor middle-class watering places (where, presumably, Tito got his first glimpse of the class enemy...
...Ukrainian report charged that on June 14 a Greek civilian and six soldiers had sneaked across the Albanian border to whitewash the pyramidal frontier marker No. 23. Said the report: "Our patrol of Trustoniku ordered him not to whitewash it, but as the civilian did not obey, our soldiers fired at him. After an exchange of shots lasting for 30 minutes, the Greek soldiers withdrew to their post of Llapanica, wherefrom they started machine-gunning our soldiers. Our patrol did the same. There were no casualties...
...gram (average treatment: six to ten grams). Since the drug's discovery in 1944 by Rutgers' Microbiologist Selman A. Waksman, it has been tested against a wide variety of diseases by a National Research Council committee headed by Boston's Dr. Chester S. Keefer. Their report, in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association added up the results in 1,000 cases. Highlight of their report: streptomycin definitely can arrest tuberculosis, but it is too costly at present for practical general treatment...
...campaign, Inkograph Co., Inc., producers of $2, non-capillary pens, last week burlesqued the extravagant claims of ballpen makers. The claims had brought in the customers. Reynolds Pen Co., one of the most extravagant claimants and originator of a pen it calls the Rocket, last week reported a handsome net profit of $2,678,815 for the year. Are ball pens that good? Some might be (Eversharp reported a normal 3% on returns). But thousands of Reynolds buyers would answer: No. In its annual report, Reynolds noted that $110,000 had been set aside to cover guarantees on its pens...