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...waited vainly for taxicabs, lugged their own heavy baggage because there weren't enough redcaps. Men in open-necked sport shirts, women in print dresses stood literally for hours in ticket lines. Squads of boys & girls, bound for summer camps, assembled beneath signs marked "Camp Hiawatha" or "Treasure Trove...
...them had been Americans. From the rich trove of British experience AAFSAT has taken vast treasure, brought it home to give to its students. Its faculty has culled the best from German tactics, studied the Russian, cudgeled its own brain for refinement of what war has already taught and for new uses of old tactical experiments now all but forgotten...
...finally made a move last week toward its forgotten treasure-trove of a million-plus tons of scrap rubber (TIME, June 8). It even made a gesture toward putting the profit motive to work on the rubber shortage, by letting scrap dealers make a little money bringing in the scrap...
This belief was dead wrong. Nobody has yet made a decent tire without rubber. The United Nations are so desperate for rubber that gasoline rationing will soon be extended everywhere in the U.S., just to keep the present tires from wearing out. Even the treasure trove of scrap rubber which has been uncovered but uncollected in the U.S. is entirely needed for war uses. There is no chance that any civilian will be able to buy a new tire until 1944-at the soonest. Positively...
...find to date: one rusty pistol. So littered with gold diggers' picks & shovels is Cocos Island that it looks "like an abandoned WPA project." A frequent visitor: Franklin Roosevelt. At Cocos the President fishes, yarns gleefully about such plunder as he himself once dug for at another famous trove on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. Other items in Wilkins' index of rainbow ends...