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...brush country back of Port Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, where reeds grow shoulder high, terror stalked last week. Ferocious, fearless man-eating lions were eating more & more...
...Churchill did not even brush the nub of the problem: joint U.S.-British economic pressure. Britain needs Argentine beef, which she does not believe the U.S. could replace. She wants to keep her Argentine investments, the most important foreign holdings she has left. Valuing Argentina as a trade partner, Britain is not eager to see her dragged into, the U.S. orbit. If Britain imposes economic sanctions on Argentina at U.S. request, it will be with growling reluctance. Said the Economist: "Gain must be counted against loss. And in this case there would be enormous loss for a very questionable gain...
...True. In Los Angeles, a brush manufacturer, by way of publicity, brought out a true toothbrush...
Exit Poles. The Finns, as near-enemies, had thus been given the coldest of brush-offs. Now up stepped the Poles, as near-allies, to get the warmest of brush-offs. Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk had been given the full red-carpet treatment. As he prepared to leave Washington he went with the warmest of goodbyes from Franklin Roosevelt and a qualified promise-not, of course, of any American aid to the Poles in their boundary quarrel with Russia. But Franklin Roosevelt did promise that all possible military aid would be rushed to the Polish underground. This, of course, would...
...most adventurous U.S. painting contractor bagged a new job last week. Vat-shaped (200 lb., 5 ft. 3 in.) Nathan Schriber flew from Denver to Kansas City to boss a $310,000 job. The job: to seal every crack in a big new Sunflower Ordnance Plant building, to brush the walls with a fire-and water-resisting paint. The job was important; the building will house the manufacture of a highly explosive and highly secret new gunpowder, and the structure must be tight against fires and floodings (from the sprinkler system...