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...soldiers ever have to fight in Central or South America, large quantities of yellow-fever vaccine will be needed. The U. S. hoard of that must start almost from scratch. Surgeon General Thomas Parran recently observed that there was hardly enough yellow-fever vaccine actually on hand to immunize a single regiment...
...that the sapphire-tipped pickup will play a disc 700 times without damage; that the sapphire will survive 30,000 to 40,000 playings-about eight years of normal use. At a Manhattan demonstration, the pickup was dropped sharply upon a record, scraped roughly across its surface, made no scratch. Tone quality: about the same as in other mass-production machines...
...moment that followed, Admiral Le Luc wiped tears from his cheeks. There was a sound of a pen scratching, a sentence spoken in French: "Monsieur le General, la plume," the scratch of a second signature. It was 6:50 p.m.. German summer time...
...Hundreds of new stations. When the FCC decision came through, 22 FM permits had already been allotted, several stations were in the process of being constructed. When FCC issues new licenses, these 22 and 135 other applicants who are now clamoring to operate FM stations will all start from scratch...
...Andorra. A relic of the Middle Ages, the little (191 sq. mi.) country has been under the joint suzerainty of the French Government and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel since 1278, pays them a yearly tribute of about $86 in goats, sheep, cucumbers, other produce. Its 5,500 inhabitants scratch a hard living from the barren, upended land...