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This seemed to smack of artistic rivalry between Hitler and Göring, and Hofer confirmed the suspicion. But it seems that Göring and Hitler eventually agreed that, since Hitler preferred 19th-Century art, he should have priority on that and Göring could have the rest.* Hitler's collections, according to Hofer, are now hidden in caves somewhere in Germany, and have not been found...
Biological Engineering. Leaders in the development of this field have been technicians of such firms as Brooklyn's Charles Pfizer & Co., one of the oldest of the fermentation chemical makers and a big producer of penicillin. They have devised techniques that smack less of a factory than of the contagion ward of a hospital...
...Navy V12 trainee, was no different from the others. But when his turn came last week, a spark caused by a short circuit in the coil ignited ether fumes from the bottle of collodion, set off a flash of blue flame that enveloped him. Perry leaped up wildly, ran smack into a wall. Several of the brothers grabbed him, rubbed out the flames with their hands, then rushed him to the University's hospital. Next day Robert Perry died of shock from burns that had scorched more than 75% of his skin...
...told why the lights had to go out: as civilians shivered in the coldest, snowiest, blowiest winter in years, the U.S. was smack up against a first-rate crisis in fuel...
...bathysphere a half mile below the ocean surface, and has experienced the hardships of jungle living, prepared for an expedition to the Venezuela tropical forests, admitted he was "tired of roughing it." For his headquarters, Beebe reported that he had found a building originally designed as a hotel, smack in the heart of the jungle, explained: "A scientist can't study nearly as well if he's cold and wet or . . . tired...