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...white man and his two black servants, looking for lions. Having no rifle, they set a steel trap-against the law-came back next day to find a full-grown lioness caught by the neck, roaring in agony. Not daring to approach her, they squatted to debate while the frantic animal panted. In the evening the white man decided to wait for the lioness to die, then collect the skin. They waited ten days before the shrunken, weakened beast relaxed and the skinning could begin...
Last summer, after frantic efforts, the Nazis had lifted their fighter-plane production to an estimated 1,200 ships a month. Then the Allies opened their methodical campaign against aircraft factories, assembly plants, repair depots. Last week Allied authorities reckoned that the Germans were getting only 25% of the new fighters expected by March...
Fighting Chinese. Chinese and U.S. troops worked well together. Cabled TIME Correspondent James Shepley from the Burmese front: "The crack 18th Japanese division made three frantic attempts to cross the Nambyu River. . . . As the Japs poured into the stream in the cold light of the jungle winter moon the Americans mowed them down with machine-gun and rifle fire. At daybreak the river was swollen with 300 to 500 Jap bodies. Merrill lost seven killed, 37 wounded...
Defensive Neutrality. The new policy was not successful either. In spite of frantic Argentinian efforts at three Pan American Congresses, "the continental security belt against Axis penetrations came into being." Because of this defeat the Argentinian "neutrality policy was declared . . . in order to show that Argentina could get along, alone and well, in spite of Washington." The Government's "international position . . . is supported by great numbers of Argentinians, especially in the hinterland. There is danger that the Argentinian generals will go to any extent in planning revolts [in neighboring countries...
...practically all petroleum-butadiene production is raw materials, i.e., the "feed stock" from 100-octane cracking plants. Both 100-octane and butadiene use the same petroleum component, butylene. But 100-octane production is far behind the aviation demands caused by the stepped-up bombing of Germany, despite a frantic expansion program. If airplane needs get too far ahead of the expansion, then "feed stocks" will have to be cut back, and the petroleum-butadiene program hobbled again...