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...Edison did not invent the electric lamp (an Englishman named Sir Joseph Swan produced an incandescent lamp in 1860-19 years before Edison...
...built Douglas transport was perilously close to the German fighter bases on the northern tip of Jutland. Out of a cloud, like a falcon striking at a swan, came a Nazi pursuit ship, the machine-gun muzzles along its black wings blinking like baleful orange-red eyes. The Swedish pilot sobbed a prayer or a curse, threw the wheel over, kicked his rudder pedals, fought to lose altitude and get down near the water without pulling the wings off. The Nazi pilot took his time, turned smoothly to follow the clumsy transport's evasive action, made another pass...
Said Judge Learned Hand's majority opinion (Judge Augustus Hand - a cousin -concurring): "We conclude that the present bylaws of A.P. unlawfully restrict the admission of members; and that fur ther enforcement of them should be en joined." Judge Thomas Swan dissented...
This column shall be our swan-song--made all the sadder by the knowledge that sadder by the knowledge that our junior counterpart has retired from the field for reasons best known to himself. This means that the Supply corps School will no longer have a voice in the SERVICE NEWS. The Junior battalion should take it upon itself to find someone to do the job. Even if the various class morale officers just passed in weekly notes it would be better than nothing...
...cheap, comfortable transportation from downtown Portland, Ore. to three Kaiser shipyards. One million dollars was paid for two ferries which in gayer days had taken San Francisco vacationists across the Bay to the World Fair. Now, for 10?, a worker could buy a round-trip ferry ticket to the Swan Island yards or the Oregon Shipbuilding Co. Twenty railroad cars were purchased from the Southern Pacific. These offered a round trip to the Vancouver yards...