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...table of organization for this unit is a little unusual. It includes four basic pearl divers, an ASTP graduate (recently promoted to technician sixth grade) and two corporal ex-garbage collectors...
...manganese, vanadium, tantalum and chromite-not one of which was produced in quantity in the U.S. before the war. Already the nation can produce most of its own chromite and tantalum (crucially important in a secret war job). The hunters have also discovered 3,000,000 tons of high-grade bauxite (for aluminum), new sources of tungsten, magnesium, nickel, mercury, many another metal. Not all these ores are of high enough quality to be commercially practical in peacetime, but they are good enough to assure the U.S. of an ample war supply...
What happened in the grade school...
Only manuscripts accepted for book publication by 25 "Grade A" publishers will be eligible for the prize. Before next June 15, these publishers will submit their entries to M.G.M. From these a dozen or so manuscripts will be winnowed, sent to a "board of experts." The board will consist of four or five literary critics who will choose the "best book of the year," receive an M.G.M. retainer for their trouble...
...York Post printed a dispatch from the old San Francisco Call reporting the discovery, by one Anson Tichenor, of "gold-bearing waters" at Calistoga, Calif. Said the dispatch: "[Tichenor] has succeeded in extracting $1,060 from ten barrels of water. The gold is of the highest grade...