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Within 24 hours this Arctic fist (to weathermen, a "Polar Continental Air Mass") produced two disastrous crashes; 34 men & women died...
...Hughe Montgomery Knachtbull-Hugessen, British Ambassador, who was shot up when a Japanese plane strafed his car near Shanghai (TIME, Sept. 6, 1937), reported that three men operating a large slingshot barely missed him with a fist-size rock...
Prominent as a sore thumb on the fumbling fist of the U.S. war effort was the Bossert Co., Inc. of Utica, N.Y. last week. The Bossert Co., which in peacetime makes steel stampings, has been humming 20 hours a day, turning out an order of 1,000,000 cases for 75-mm. artillery shells. So fast did it turn out its brass cases that other plants fell behind in providing the other parts. From the U.S. Army came a strange command: slow up. Bossert Co. went back to an eight-hour day until further notice...
...attempt to pin him-he simply began to hammer the living daylights out of him." Herb "must have been absorbing quite a drubbing for the moment he heard my voice he called . . . 'Jump in, Bill!' " But Joe had a long reach, held Bellamy off with one fist while he wore out Herb with the other...
...Family is not all about Boy Town and fist fights. There are Mother's efforts to make both ends meet, Grandma's efforts to break up the children's ungodly card playing. Grandma found that burning a whole pack of cards in the stove in her room was too much bother, so she sabotaged sin by slyly removing just one card from each new deck. It was always the ace of spades, and Author Partridge believes the old lady thought the ace was the devil's hoofprint...