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...Moth Balls. Luckily the U.S. was not as badly off as it seemed. To date, the planes most needed in Korea are not the fastest, latest jets on which the aircraft industry's skeleton production is concentrating, but World War II types like the Mustang F-51. These are slower but have the longer cruising radius needed to fly from distant bases and provide tactical support for ground troops (see WAR IN ASIA). The U.S. had 4,600 such World War II planes in "moth balls" when the Korean war began and was rushing them into action. But Secretary...
...Korean war, are owed an explanation. When TIME went to press as usual late Monday night, President Truman had not been heard from and the U.S. position in the conflict was still publicly undecided. Our Washington bureau reporters stood by and waited. Arrangements were made to have a skeleton staff on hand at the editorial offices in New York for a Tuesday newsbreak. At 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, when word of the President's announcement came, TIME was being printed on schedule. Editor...
Fitted with a mask of wax, Saint Maria's skeleton had been brought to Rome for public veneration from her home town of Nettuno, near the Anzio beachhead of World War II. The ceremony had to be moved out of the basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter...
Since that time some 15 attempts have been made to salvage the Florencia's treasure. They yielded handfuls of gold and silver coin, a cannon designed by Benvenuto Cellini, the skeleton of a boy, some silver plate etched with Spanish arms, religious medals, ammunition and boarding pikes. But under the silt of years the bulk of the Spanish treasure still, presumably, lies where it sank, tucked securely "beneathe ye sell of ye gunroome...
...fire irons, tribes of tongs, shovels in sheaves Skeleton bedsteads, wardrobe drawers agape, Rows of tall, slim brass lamps with dangling gear And worse, cast clothes a-sweetening...