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...Farouk's outburst had consequences he had not foreseen. Last week in London, 32-year-old Labor M.P. Woodrow Wyatt decided that Egypt probably was not a very reliable ally anyway and demanded that Britain's Labor Government stop selling arms to the Egyptians, beginning with a shipment of 16 new Centurion tanks just about to be delivered...
...payoff comes when Howard reads an inscription on a statue of a salamander which he is packing for shipment to England. The inscription is something to the effect that the way to overcome evil is not to ignore it, but to meet it. This sets him thinking, slowly at first, then with increasing speed as the enormity of the crime hits him. He eventually meets all the tribulations of the amateur detective, getting hit on the head, shot at, bawled out by his girl, and suspected by the authorities...
...matter, ECA had already diverted $11,500,000 worth of flour from its Italian and German stocks. The Export-Import Bank rushed off a quick $6,000,000 for drought relief out of the $55 million in U.S. credits already granted to Tito. The first U.S. relief shipment arrived in Yugoslavia last week...
...Pershings, with 90-mm. guns, began to reach Korea at the end of July. The first damaging inroads on enemy armor were made by Allied airplanes and by 3.5-in. bazookas, capable of penetrating eleven inches of armor, the first of which were dispatched to Korea by emergency air shipment from the U.S. It was clear that if the Kum River line could not be held, the defenders would soon be compressed into a beachhead perimeter around Pusan. U.S. commentators began to bandy the horrid word "Dunkirk." Were the Allies in Korea being pushed into...
...line has also drummed up a steady business in transporting corpses (it was sued for "mental anguish" by relatives when one shipment was delayed). This spring it added the Furniture Manufacturers' Association of Southern California as a steady customer. Prescott convinced the association that it could save on crating, ship cheaper by air than by the railroads' less-than-carload lots...