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...ceremony marked the official start, just three days shy of ten years after Japan's surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri, of salvage work on 59 ships sunk in Philippine waters: 48 in Manila Bay, eleven in Cebu. Japan sent a salvage task force of 149 craft to do the job, a small but symbolic part of Japan's reparation payment to the Philippines. While the two nations continue to haggle over reparations, the salvage work will proceed, and its cost, about $6,500,000, will be credited to Japan's total debt. The scrap iron will...
...salvage men's trickiest task will be the raising of the light cruiser Kiso, sunk in Manila Bay in November 1944, by U.S. aerial torpedoes. Listing to starboard, her bow in the air and her stern in 25 ft. of mud, the Kiso lies with her ammunition magazines intact...
...pulsating with the deeper excitement of proved riches and the pell-mell drive to get them out of the ground. Geologists have declared that there may be uranium ore reserves of at least 150 million tons in the 900 square miles. Already the shafts are being sunk and mills built for four huge mines. One of them alone, Algom, will be capable of producing more uranium than all of the 600-plus uranium mines...
...crew of Captain Cook. Under his nerveless, hypnotic brown eyes, the men heaved 50 tons of equipment overboard, worked the pumps until they dropped, and strained mightily at the capstan so that on the second high tide, the Endeavour was pulled free. Even then the ship would have sunk to the bottom if Cook had not been canny-and humble- enough to accept a timid midshipman's suggestion that he draw a dung-and-oakum-smeared sail under the ship and over a shattered spot in the bottom. Pressure clotted the sail to the hole, and the Endeavour...
...take over from the elder statesmen, and the delegates agreed by ratifying a charter with a 15-member board of trustees. He also noted a switch in emphasis: now that its fame is widespread, A.A. gets more and more alcoholics (about half its new members) who have not yet sunk out of social respectability into Skid Row obscurity, who have had little or no experience with delirium, hospitals and jails. In consequence, A.A. is approaching closer to preventive medicine. Such cases make up one of the most encouraging sections of the new edition of Alcoholics Anonymous. A prime example...