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...Certain types of cancer in mice, especially breast, are caused by "poisonous" hormones brewed in the endocrine glands along with normal hormones. Problem is to discover what these cancer-causing hormones are. New, hitherto undescribed glandular substances have been isolated from the urine of patients. This may in time "provide a technique of almost unimaginable scope" for: 1) investigating cancer in early stages by examining urine; 2) treating the cancer by neutralizing abnormal hormones...
Chin Up. The Battle of the Pacific has demonstrated the need for flyers who can handle themselves in water. Preflight cadets are taught to swim in waterlogged uniforms, to master the chin-up breast stroke instead of the crawl, to swim under water, to strive for endurance rather than speed. At the end of the three-month course, each man should be able to stay afloat for five hours...
...blunder clearly did not help such German propaganda as that reported by the captain of the freighter Rio Gallegos, just back in port. He told how a Nazi submarine commander had stopped him north of Bermuda, presented him with a Nazi decoration (from the commander's own breast) and a bottle of champagne...
...great Billy Mitchell were still alive, his answer would be "yes." But Billy Mitchell is dead, with his rank posthumously upped and most of his prophecies as bright as the multi-colored ribbons that swatched the breast of his tunic. But except for a few civilian followers such as "Sascha" Seversky and Al Williams, his disciples are mute. Even at this stage of World War II, it is not politic for men in uniform to make predictions...
Lanoue claims that sailors could jump feet first through the flames, swim as long as they could under water (swimming for his life, a man might make 100 yards without air), then spring above the flames to breathe, taking a breast stroke to push flames away, and sink and swim again. Thus a man could navigate up to 200 yards of burning oil. Only time Freddie has been singed was when he had on a shirt and an air bubble inside it kept him too long above the surface...