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Author Bessy Myers and her cool friend, Mary Darby, were captured in June 1940. They spent the next "incredible hundred days" under the Nazi thumb-in a hospital and in two prisons, in Occupied France. They got loose and back to London. For three weeks, in the notorious Cherche-Midi prison in Paris, they experienced solitary confinement, bedbugs, thoughts about suicide. Their jailmates were in for such crimes as tearing down a Nazi poster; firing a cook (who promptly denounced her mistress to the Nazis); saying sales Bodies (two years); helping Polish suspects escape from Paris (20 years). One night...
Captain Wally Fenn, in spite of a chipped thumb bone, should be in playing an outstanding game at second attack, with Carl Sullivan a strong possibility at center. With only his hockey experience to back him up, Ab Fenn will be at his old job of guarding the nets...
...this was true-in 1918. But the metallurgist's laboratory, now equipped with such things as powerful X-ray machines to study flaws in castings, has replaced the foundry foreman's rule-of-thumb. Says Detroit Metallurgist E. C. Troy, "The foundry engineer has been able to improve his product almost beyond recognition...
...were caught once with our pants down. Well-now we've got our sleeves rolled up for something more useful than thumb twiddling. "For God's sake let's get going" that's the cry of the little people from the Bay of Fundy to San Diego, from Key West to Seattle-"Give us jobs...
...pressure on U.S. prices-especially consumer prices-is getting stronger every week. Plugged by the patriotic thumbs of 1,700,000 retailers, the dyke has kept consumers much drier than they may feel. Last week many a retailer prepared to rest his thumb, turn over...