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...increase is in tanks, not trucks. Equipped to make almost anything big that moves, Herrington soon had orders from Britain, The Netherlands Indies, Greece and China. M-H equipment has been war-tested aplenty. The British were so pleased with their first M-H trucks (they went over desert sand like camels) that they bought about 100,000 units, are now using many of them in the Libyan push. In Crete, scores of British-and Greek-owned M-H light tanks fought mightily before being blasted to bits by Nazi bombers. Dutch-owned M-H tanks and gun carriers...
...sandy specks in the midst of a watery nowhere. A Clipper stop on Pan Am's famed trans-Pacific run, it boasted a small hostel, an imposing concrete air-raid shelter recently built, a catch basin for rain water, a hydroponic tank for growing vegetables, which the coral sand refuses to nurture...
...Angeles Times started a new classified-advertising section called "Defense Aids." A Manhattan department store used half a newspaper page to advertise air-raid whistles, asbestos gloves, first-aid kits, rubber boots, flashlights, axes, shovels, a 100-lb. sack of sand...
...blood cells, kills 95% of its victims who are not treated. Antimony is a specific for the disease, but of course few of its victims ever see a doctor until the disease is far advanced. Kala-azar is primarily an affliction of dogs, is passed to human beings by sand flies...
...soil at Recife is nearly pure sand, must be watered down to keep it from blowing away. From a nearby quarry clay is hauled, spread over the sand base in a six-inch layer. Over this go two three-inch layers of soil stabilization mixture. The result is equivalent to good cement, but is cheap, quick and resistant to the equatorial...