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...Stahlmen started off the second half with a spurt. Paced by Dean Hennessy, they managed to narrow the gap to about ten points. The spurt was short-lived unfortunately and the Coast Guard boys had little trouble the rest of the period. The final quarter went much the same way, and, as mentioned before, the final count...
...century, laughed off the stage in a premature Presidential try in 1940, has shown his ability to grow and thus to come back. He is compiling an unassailable record as Governor of the nation's No. 1 political state. In Gallup polls-despite Wendell Willkie's recent spurt (see p. 14)-he leads all other Republicans as he has for many months...
Strategically, the booming Norman Wells development on the banks of the Mackenzie is of highest importance. The field is fortunately placed on the global maps. From North America to Asia, air routes over Alaska and the Aleutians are considerably shorter than the transpacific route via Hawaii. Gas within pipe-spurt of the northern take-off fields, aviation gas which need not be trucked or flown in, is vital in the Army's aeropolitics...
...Travel advertising took a sudden, self-conscious spurt, but had a frustrated tone. Lake George, N.Y. beckoned soothingly: "Everything within easy walking distance . . . you don't need a car." Sea Island, Ga. boasted: "No rationing of cool sea breezes." The Denver Convention & Visitors' Bureau: ". . . Thousands of young Americans training in and near Denver say they're coming back, when their job is done. . . ." "If," said the Mexican Tourist Association, "you plan to visit your boy in camp in the Southwest. . . ." La Province de Québec described its humming war plants, its R.C.A.F. training fields, shrugged: "Your...
...parochial shrewdness that refuses medical aid to the victims of a flood in a neighboring valley until such time as the medical history of each victim and his ability to pay has been thoroughly canvassed. It was precisely such a policy following Versailles that let the German mark spurt like a severed artery untied and bled white the currencies of most of the other European belligerents...