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...standard routine in going after the big boys (300 Ibs. and up) is to use a batch of expensive equipment, hire a trim cruiser with a smart crew, then settle comfortably into a special swivel chair and wait for the fish to bite. Commander Hodgson got his tuna the hard...
...doesn't yell, holler, scream, shout; get angry, mad, furious; fly off the handle; pound the desk; fuss; fly in a rage; bite your head...
...internship at Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, and Dr. Smith reported the findings in the current Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. They did not expect the work to found a major business in snakebite cures: the U.S. has only about 2,000 cases of snake bite a year. But there seemed to be no reason why men, as well as mice, should not benefit from the king snake's natural immunity...
Careful Expansion. Even the aircraft industry, which had a $4.2 billion bite of defense funds, was revving up slowly. In Wichita, Boeing Airplane announced it would increase its 10,000-man work force by 50%, but so far has hired only 908 workers, mostly highly skilled mechanics. In other plants there was no stampede, just careful expansion...
...Small Bite. General Motors' Cadillac Division took possession of Cleveland's Fisher bomber plant this week, began to plan production lines for tanks. But total defense orders in the whole Detroit area are expected to reach only $400 million by year's end-or about 5% of General Motors' annual rate of sales...