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Manhattan Psychiatrist Frederic Wertham had undergone, while conscious, two serious operations for dangerous blood vessel conditions in his legs. Due to the nature of his illness, scopolamine, the "truth drug," was given instead of an anesthetic. While the surgeon's knife cut into his flesh, Psychiatrist Wertham enthusiastically dictated to a hovering stenographer a stream-of-consciousness description of his mental processes...
...Storm. After that, the tiny vessel sailed south to the 20th degree of latitude, headed west before the warm trade winds. For five weeks the women & children sunbathed on the deck, the men lounged, bare-armed, in the cockpit. Then, on Nov. 27, 60 miles off Cape Hatteras, the Erma ran into a freezing westerly gale. She was assailed by storm after storm. Sledging seas sent water spraying through her leaking cabin ports. Everything-clothes, shoes, blankets, bulkheads-grew wet with sea water. It was bitter cold...
...bedraggled, exhausted Estonians were hustled into the officers' club, given hot drinks, hot food, candy, cigarets. Hundreds of people called to bring toys for the children, gifts of clothes and money. But the Erma's people, like those who had crossed the Atlantic on many another sailing vessel, had come not for kindness. They wanted work and a chance to raise their children in a new land. At week's end they were waiting to see if the U.S. would have them...
...than a mile an hour, stay under about ten hours. Each carried at the end of a stick a ten-kilogram explosive charge with contact fuse. A floating chamber behind the charge made it easy to handle. The fukuryus, organized in squads and platoons, were to wait till a vessel passed overhead, then ram the mine into the ship's bottom. They were to be protected from bombardment by underwater "foxholes"-sections of large concrete pipe fitted with steel doors...
...Aluminum Co. of America announced that it has commissioned Manhattan's George G. Sharp & Co. to design a 7,780-ton, all-aluminum vessel; Manhattan's Gibbs & Cox, Inc., who designed the Liberty ships, will draw plans for a 10,280 tonner. Alcoa will build the one it likes, use it to haul bauxite from its mines in Moengo and Paranam, Dutch Guiana, to the U.S. for processing. But the primary purpose is to open up a vast new market for aluminum. Alcoa already has its foot in this door...