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...regulation of lives, property and enterprises of Japanese nationals there." Actually, aside from small turtle fisheries and idle phosphate works, the islands are practically uninhabited. As a heavy shipping base they are useless, for the surrounding waters are a rocky, treacherous graveyard. Japan's real reason for the snatch was to get a good airplane and submarine base (the lagoons inside the reefs insure sheltered landing and mooring) within striking distance of dependencies of Britain (Singapore, 640 miles away; Sarawak, 350; Hong Kong, 1,000), France (Saigon, in French Indo-China, 300), The Netherlands (Borneo...
...Knox was arrested on the charge of forging her mother's endorsement to pension checks, but she refused to believe her mother was dead, could not explain the whereabouts of Sumner Knox. When a State detective tried to snatch a letter from her, powerful Mrs. Knox jerked his arm so hard that she broke a knitting fracture in his neck. Her lawyer announced: "She wants the public to feel that she is at least halfway human-not at all the monster that idle rumor has made...
...Mecca." Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory is not only unique in England; it has no parallel in the world. To create its like, it would be necessary to snatch two or three top-flight experimental physicists from each of four or five U. S. universities-say Harvard. M. I. T., Caltech, Columbia, Chicago-put them to work together and then miraculously endow the new institution with the tradition and prestige of 68 years of brilliant achievement. Cambridge's Arthur Stanley Eddington, an astronomer and no Cavendish man himself, has described the laboratory as a "Mecca of physics...
...Visitors Snatch Lead...
...might be better than the chemical anesthesia now in use. Ingenious Ichthyologist Coates has already found a practical use for these fantastic fish. For years the Manhattan Aquarium was chivied by large river rats that invaded it during the winter. The rats would climb to the top of tanks, snatch fish out, eat them. Dr. Coates bought a few cats, but they preferred fishing too. Thereupon Coates opened the electric eel tank, turned the fish loose on the floor to play with the cats. The latter promptly pawed the eels, were thoroughly shocked. The Aquarium cats, now firmly convinced that...