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...parts of the story still withheld, voluntarily. What was released was enough to show that the man-behind-the-story, Colonel George Alexander Drew, World War I hero and Conservative party leader in Ontario province, hadn't been talking through his hat. The charges he made were twofold: 1) that the 2,000 Canadian soldiers sent to Hong Kong and promptly killed or captured had been miserably undertrained and tragically underequipped; 2) that Chief Justice Sir Lyman Duff, acting as a royal commission, had absolved those responsible...
...Castroviejo can resuscitate Ortiz as a political force, he will indeed have proved himself the genuine miracle man the pro-war press terms him. His miracle will have been twofold: to save a vision generally considered lost to diabetes, to rescue a national policy in danger of being lost to stubborn neutrality...
...coastal fires were the work of Axis agents, their purpose was twofold: to cloak submarines from the prying eyes of U.S. aircraft on patrol; to drag men from vital war factories to fight the fires. Fire-fighting manpower was at a low ebb. The draft had cut deeply into the ranks of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Soldiers and sailors banded together with hastily recruited citizens to dig trenches, fell trees...
...mercury "bomb" is spot-welded to one cathode and is exploded by heat applied just before the fluorescent tube is sealed, thus releasing mercury vapor into the argon-filled lamp. Twofold result, claimed by Hygrade Sylvania: 1) stable performance of every tube; 2) savings of up to 50% of mercury previously wasted...
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