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...Washington, commissioned in 1941, probably four new battleships, the South Dakota, Indiana, Massachusetts and Alabama, have joined the fleet by this time. The "biggest-ever" (45,000 tons), 30-knot Iowa was launched, in August, her sister ship New Jersey this week. These big, new, cruiser-fast battleships differ from the old Pearl Harbor ships as a Flying Fortress differs from a B18. Other signs of naval recovery...
...TIME [Aug. 10] ... you state that Winston Churchill's daughter was spanked by Bill ("Feets") Adams, an American soldier who wears size 14EE shoes, the largest shoes issued by the United States Army. I beg to differ. . . . My brother, Pvt. Archie Rabhan, one of your subscribers, who is stationed in New York City, was issued size 16EE shoes...
Although the Enfields were constructed to be carried in a sidewise position, the Navy men will carry them in the normal American way, although they weigh more than American models, and differ in design and balance...
...American Revolution, General Nathanael Greene was disowned for serving in the Continental Army; in the Civil War, militant Quakers were ousted by the hundred. Now Friends are inclined to differ in silence...
...termites is increased by their socialist tendencies-they are the most communal of insects. Some ants, wasps and bees are solitary; there are no solitary termites. They have three major castes: reproductives, workers and soldiers. With a male as well as a female reproductive in each colony, termites differ from all other social insects, which are matriarchic. They are the most fecund of all land animals. Some queens become enormously swollen with eggs, attaining a length of over five inches-20,000 times bigger than soldiers and workers. They produce as many as 7,000 eggs a day for incredible...