Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largely Christian Lebanon, where Moslems are mistrusted, the Fighting French had better, luck. Last week in Beirut they set up a new government under slight, grave-faced Maitre Sami Bey el Solb, who had fought the Turks in World War I side by side with T. E. Lawrence and King Feisal. Around him Premier el Solh gathered a strong Cabinet and prepared to hold a free election for the Presidency and Parliament. And in Cairo, Premier el Solh has another friend even more potent than Fighting Frenchman Catroux: Egypt's roving-eyed Premier, Nahas Pasha...
Some metal supplies are in good shape-at least so far as essential needs are concerned. Lead and antimony, on WPB's requirements list, both show a slight excess of supply. Though manganese is now taking some of the load off nickel, the supply situation looks good enough-so that imports have recently been curtailed, at least temporarily. Chromium is one metal about which U.S. stockpilers were so forehanded that-combined with new domestic production (see below)-all appears to be well...
...them within the space of three days-were prompted by military necessity. Objectives were airdromes from which Allied planes had been harrying Rommel's supply lines. Actually, though Cairo threw up a mighty and thunderous barrage, the raid was small, soon scattered, resulted in one fatality and "slight damage." Most of the bombs fell in the suburbs. London was inclined to let it pass...
...Bernie Bierman (Iowa), Ray Wolf (Georgia) and Jim Crowley (North Carolina) were not crowing last week. Reason: most of the 3,500 cadets now in training will have graduated by the eve of the football season. Cadets will then be arriving and leaving every two weeks. Barring this slight difficulty with personnel, by mid-October the Navy's preflight football teams should be rolling like Army...
...time they got the young man to Sydenham Hospital the thunder crashed and the rain came down. They called Acting Chief Surgeon Dr. Edward Finestone in from Far Rockaway, 24 miles out on Long Island. Dr. Finestone, driving in fast through the storm, had a bad skid and a slight crackup, but he got to the hospital...