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...Eleven ships leaving for Russia, including steamer with airplane motors and 28 long-range guns. One steamer has deckload airplanes, below deck airplane motors, Boeing and Douglas airplane parts on steamer with Curtiss-Wright airplanes, motors and small munitions, searchlights and telegraphic material...
...book is dedicated, died last February in the sinking of an army trans port in the North African campaign. He and three other chaplains (a Methodist, a Roman Catholic, a Jew) gave their life belts to soldiers who had none, were last seen kneeling together on a canting deck in their final prayer...
...originals but has never bothered to look up the comic. He was continually amazed at the need for dentistry in Alaska and wonders what his old friends do now for their aching jaws. If a dentist's office can be pleasant, the chair on the gently swaying deck, with halyards, birds and daughter Anna to look at, came near it. But when weather was rough and the deck bounced too much for the doctor to brace his stocky body for an extraction, he repaired to the dock and yanked without ceremony...
...Navy's device, like that of Caltech's Physicist Alexander Goetz (TIME, June 7), uses chemicals to remove salts from the water. Equipment consists of a packet of chemicals the size of a deck of cards and three plastic bags resembling hot-water bottles. Sea water is mixed with one of the chemicals in the first bag, which converts the salts in the water into other compounds. These are then precipitated by another chemical and filtered out in the second and third bags. The final product: clear, fresh, slightly sulfuric water...
...find time for his prewar recreations is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Fanatically vigorous for a 75-year-old, he carries out a daily program that would tax a man of 50. At "Woodley," his baronial estate in Washington, he tramps for an hour before breakfast, plays deck tennis for an hour before dinner, plays croquet with obvious condescension when oldsters like Secretary Hull are his guests. For pre-lunch exercise he keeps Indian clubs in his office. Twice a week he rides hired horses at Maryland's Meadowbrook Club, rides his own hunters weekends on his Long...