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...London a grave disservice with such misrepresentation of facts. . . . You suggest that Londoners are living on the last spurt of energy which so often galvanizes a dying man. This is untrue and unworthy of TIME...
...expect, for geography canalizes desert warfare. Some of the enemy's drives were already either under way or poised to strike. Month ago Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, Italy's expert in African warfare, led the spearhead of a drive from Libya into Egypt. After his first crushing spurt, he had pegged in at Sidi Barrani (see map), and his forces had been consolidating themselves there ever since. The British were 80 miles east at Mersa Matruh, the outpost to which they had decided to retire, with tip & run tactics, whenever the drive from Libya materialized. To south and east...
...less surprising than the Yankees' collapse was the Tigers' spurt. Last spring few experts gave Detroit an outside chance to finish in the first division. They had plenty of punch at bat, but their infield was creaky, their pitching questionable...
Since War II started, Franklin Roosevelt and his men have damped more than one price spurt by methods not always polite. Last fall the posted steel price threatened to rise; the Temporary National Economic Committee called steelmen to Washington, argued for low prices, hinted at an anti-steel publicity campaign; the steel price stayed put. When housewives started to hoard retail sugar (TIME, Sept. 23), the President untied import quotas; in came Cuban sugar, down went prices. Copper began to move upwards; the President said the price was being watched, and the move slackened. Few weeks ago domestic mercury sold...
...tough and gamy steelhead trout does not like to be artificially bred. In Oregon hatcheries, breeders get eggs from trapped females by "stripping," or squeezing their bellies so that the eggs spurt out into a pan. Males are stripped of their milt in the same way, and when the eggs and milt are brought together, fertilization takes place quickly. But experts say that stripping a fighting, kicking steelhead is "like trying to milk a galloping cow with a greased udder." When the fish struggle hardest, large batches of eggs and milt may be sprayed out helter-skelter and lost...