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...Englanders, who naturally believe that their scions are bigger if not better men than their fathers, got a shock last week. According to an Army stature chart, bona fide Yanks are the smallest men in today's Army, said Major George D. Williams of the Surgeon General's office. The average New England height has been pulled down by the many short-statured descendants of French-Canadian and Polish settlers...
...scouting force put out into the Skagerrak, leading the High Seas Fleet, heading into the greatest battle in modern naval history, Jutland, Vice Admiral Hipper paced the bridge of the scouting force flagship Lützow, with his binoculars dangling on the breast of his blue greatcoat. In the chart room near by stood Franz Hipper's chief of staff: Erich Raeder, brave in the four stripes of a captain...
...save Superman from this dilemma, plump, 27-year-old Superscriptman Jerry Siegel patched up a makeshift solution after Pearl Harbor. Superman, rejected for enlistment when his X-ray eyes inadvertently read the chart in the next room, set out to serve his country as No. 1 spycatcher. "Of course," says Ideaman Siegel, who admits that Superman frightens even him sometimes, "if a sub comes to our shores and shells the U.S. we might have him take time out and administer the proper punishment...
...Fever Chart...
Back to Cuba. The result has been that Cuba, a low-cost producer close at hand, which by all the laws of economics should have supplied the U.S., has had her production cut (see chart, p. 63) by the laws of man. And now the U.S. has to turn to Cuba again for most of its supply...