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...nervous and edgy. Manned by both R.A.F. and U.S. crews, they swirled over the Continent from dawn to dark; on one day 400 of them were on the loose. They hacked at light industrial establishments, shot up railroad trains, left locomotives steaming from their sides and ready for a tow to the repair shops...
...announced last month by Du Pont. This challenge to the wartime nylon shortage, with drives for old nylon, should mean that many of the 200 million pairs of nylon hose made during the past three years will be converted into parachute cloth, tapes and harness, glider tow ropes, other military goods...
...nonsense concerns Grant's rather natural interest in the little ecdysiast gone good via marriage to one of Der Fuehrer's greasier agents. Fifth-columnist Slezak and bride tour Europe on a sort of official honeymoon, with newshawk Cary watchfully in tow. In no time at all countries begin to fall, and with them the plausibility of the film. What had been witty dialogue now falls flat, what started out to be a whirlwind plot is slowed by refugees and the agonies of captive peoples. Director McCarey makes no attempt to eliminate the more sordid elements from the story...
That was Dec. 3, off Nantucket. At noon of the next day a British destroyer located her off the tip of Cape Cod. The seas were running too high to take anyone off, but the Britisher took her in tow and headed for Halifax. But the adventures of the 3070 had only begun. Seaman Toivo Koskinen was on deck trying to rig a chafing gear when a wave swept him overboard. Another wave picked him up and swept him back. This time a shipmate grabbed him. In the blackness of night the towline snapped; the destroyer was lost to sight...
Help. In Phoenix, an automobile gave a tow to six horses that had got stuck in a canal...