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...question was an old one. Romans asked it in 260 B.C., when Carthage cracked the whip in the Mediterranean. Rome's winning answer was its first fleet-100 galleys, knocked together on the beaches with hammer and saw in 60 days. But tomorrow's Navy is no two-month building job. Rear Admirals Samuel M. Robinson and Ben Moreell, the Navy's chiefs of new-ship construction, could give no better answer than: 1946 or 1947, if the U. S. put its mind, men and money...
...Groom, Tex., after a two-month drought, Mayor Frank Koetting manifestoed in the Groom News: "Groom is facing a water shortage and by damn I mean a water shortage. I am asking every man, woman and child to help save water. Let's all go back to the old practice of less modern ways. Let's visit the old two-holers. If you don't have a two-holer, borrow your neighbor...
Died. Sir Raymond Unwin, 76, famed British town planner; after a two-month illness; in Lyme, Conn. Advocating "satellite" towns to relieve metropolitan congestion. Planner Unwin dubbed skyscrapers "sheer madness...
Back from a two-month vacation with wits sharp and eyes clear, U. S. Pundit Walter Lippmann succinctly analyzed the Italian problem...
...Mlle Eve Curie began her two-month talking tour across the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 12), her good friend, hawk-nosed, witty Dueler and Playwright Henry Bernstein put on a new show, the first gala opening Paris had seen since the start of World War II, in the newly-decorated Théâtre des Ambassadeurs, across the street from the U. S. Embassy. For his latest play, Elvire, Bernstein had remodeled the theatre at great personal expense. "If Paris is not bombarded," said he, "I will have the most beautiful theatre in the world. And if Paris is destroyed...