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In Conrad's Victory (first made in 1919), Paramount had the vitals of a really scary thriller. The dreadful days on the little island of Samburan when creepy Mr. Jones and his two frightening assistants were looking for some swag can curl the hair of the most composed reader...
Waterworks Superintendent Lewis Kohl was fired, Assistant Jones suspended. Within 72 hours, 5,000 persons had taken the first in a course of three typhoid vaccinations. From Albany the State Department of Health rushed 46,000 doses of vaccine. A thousand citizens fell ill with minor intestinal disturbances. Since the...
The change in the Luftwaffe's tactics was as angry as it was revealing. Big bombers and dive bombers stopped flying over Britain almost entirely. In their place went fast light bombers and fighting planes fitted up with racks for a few medium bombs. These droned over high, in...
"The Methods." Not Iong ago a civil servant who had just been transferred to the Ministry of Aircraft Production expressed the general complaint against the Ministry. "You'd hardly believe the appalling state of this office," said he. "The place is a complete chaos." Somebody asked: "Isn't...
In the second year Japan's slowing thunderbolt almost rolled to a stop. Only major successes were the capture of Hankow, where the Government had lighted after the fall of Nanking, and whence it moved on to Chungking (TIME, Feb. 21, 1938); the dreadful bombing and subsequent capture of...