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Soft Skin. A witness faced the prisoners. He was Dr. Franz Blaha, a Czech surgeon-whose wrist tendons had been cut at Dachau so that he might never practice again. Said Blaha: "Orders frequently were received at Dachau for skulls. Teeth counted a great deal. ... It was dangerous to have a soft, fine skin or good teeth. . . . Soft human skin was prized for leather and bindings. . . ." Pointing an accusing finger at Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, Reichsbank President Walter Funk, Labor Boss Fritz Sauckel and Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, the witness said that they had visited Dachau concentration camp, and had watched...
Flashlights and wrist compasses were standard fukuryu equipment. They could communicate with each other up to 16 feet apart by using breathing units as megaphones, up to 1,000 feet by knocking pieces of metal together. Planned, but not yet built at the war's end, were reinforced concrete underwater dens where crouching dragons could lie in wait for ships. At war's end there were 4.000 fukuryus at Yokosuka, of whom 1,200 were fully trained...
...action begins on the transport when Captain MacDonald steps to the deck, looks at the luminous dial of his wrist watch and says...
...Sept. 24] as soon as the weather turns cool enough to develop its crispy sweetness and incomparable flavor. Colorado celery is so delicious that it doesn't make any difference whether it is salted or not, but it is also good enough that no one minds bending the wrist slightly to salt it. Coloradoans are not "mad" at Mr. Morton, Mr. Carey, the Great Salt Lake, or any other person who has a lot of salt...
After a shave Wiedemann lunched on a hamburger, chatted with Navy Lieut. Guy Martin, who had convoyed him from Tientsin. Newsmen stared at the briefcase chained to Martin's wrist, asked how the Nazi consul had been captured, were told curtly: "No interviews...