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Well might Tom Girdler be proud. Mass-producing bombers is as much more complicated than building autos as the growth of the human body is more complex than the growth of an amoeba. The average car has 15,000 parts. The bomber that rolled off Consolidated's line last week had 101,650 parts, laced together by more than 400,000 rivets...
Only time could fairly judge the complex Indian cases. But neither Japan nor the British people had time to waste. Unless every possible iota of Indian strength and spirit were called on, a day might soon come when Britain's Captains and Kings would depart from India, and the fire of Britain's power and glory would sink, perhaps forever, from India's dunes and headlands...
...Force end of this complex operation was handled by Wing Commander Percy Charles Pickard. who had a pilot's part in the British film Target for Tonight. No doubt the Germans would build another detector station. But, Airman Pickard and his Army and Navy colleagues, in faultless timing, perfect coordination and complete success of their mission, had fought a fine war in miniature...
...Irish eat "lots of sea lettuce" which is rich in iodine. This influences their thyroids, in some mysterious manner keeps their hair from turning grey. By giving a 70-year-old woman vitamin B complex, Hauser claimed to have turned her white hair black. (In the audience last week was his 84-year-old sponsor Lady Mendl-Decorator Elsie de Wolfe-whose hair, once blue, is snow white.) Worry, said Hauser, also turns hair grey "by destroying the adrenal glands...
...spite of its name, it is no kin to the complex, miracle-working sulfonamide drugs, which contain sulfur, ammonia, benzene...