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...Fire Bombs. This made for safer as well as for more powerful operation. The morale of the air crews rose. Then the Marines (after 22,500 casualties) captured Iwo Jima, halfway between Saipan and Tokyo. Iwo had been intended primarily as a base for P-51 fighters which would accompany the B-29s over Japan. But Iwo turned out to be even more valuable as a rescue station where crippled or gas-shy B-29s could settle down on the way back from Japan...
Lesson for Pan Am. Actually, the rise in stocks, notably those of the airlines & aircraft builders, caught many an expert flatfooted. For example, when Pan American Airways Corp. planned new stock issues last December, it thought it safer and cheaper to make a deal with Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to buy any unsold stock, up to $25,000.000. For its financing, Atlas received an option on 500,000 shares of Pan Am at $18 (TIME, Dec. 18). Last week, Pan Am canceled the deal. Reason: Pan Am's stock was up to 28, higher than even...
...Morton C. Kahn, William Celestin and William Offenhauser, casting about for new ways to destroy mosquitoes that might be safer and cheaper than insecticides, hit on the idea of luring them into traps. The first step was to find out whether mosquitoes are able to communicate with each other...
...artificial lake, the Kiosk of Trajan (1st Century B.C.), in recent years so submerged that often only its upper half could be seen, has collapsed completely. On the same island, the Temple of Isis is in such danger that Egyptians have planned to move it to a safer spot...
...Just over the bank,' someone replied. 'Which bank do you mean?' 'The one right in front of you.' 'Then let me out quick!' the driver yelled, and clambered over the side into two feet of water. ... I felt a lot safer myself after we were moving again. That night we slept in an abandoned farmhouse, and at an early hour the Germans were over us with fast-flying jet aircraft, bombing the daylights out of the whole area...