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Widener retained its position as a library through the efforts of a steady but small stream of students who came to read and not to sign up. They seemed to succeed despite the interference of the war and the yellow-clad nurses who helped with the registering...
...rocket bombs, which are said to be as destructive as a large-caliber shell, are slung from the underside of the wings, aimed by pointing planes directly at their targets. Self-propelled, the rockets trail a stream of sparks like the tail of a comet. In London some experts predicted that rocket bombs may soon make dive-bombing obsolete. Reasons: 1) the new weapon's high potential accuracy, which enables planes to bomb with greater success from greater heights; 2) its greater penetrating power-the push of the rocket stream is added to the momentum given to the bomb...
Somehow, through the bursting bombs, roaring planes and racing fire engines, he and his staff of twelve managed to keep a steady stream of on-the-spot news flowing across the Atlantic. These Graebner reports of how the Nazis dished it out and the British took it in the Battle of Britain will long be remembered as some of the most vivid, authentic reporting ever to appear in TIME...
Died. Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, 67, novelist (Green Forest, Black Stream), ex-wife of Bainbridge Colby, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State; in Manhattan. Once a celebrated hostess to Washington society, she satirized the blue bloods in her writings, and Colby, when he sued for divorce in France, complained that she had satirized him. She later got their divorce in Reno...
...citizen. As far back as 1933, Lever experiments with a "different" floating soap had led them to the U.S. Patent Office. In 1940 the company obtained a patent on a "revolutionary" (and still extremely hush-hush) soapmaking process: a "continuous" manufacturing technique that turned out floating soap in a stream of cakes, rather than in batches (brewed separately in caldrons...