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...they could give him, that he reached when his forces closed on Singapore; when he drove at the East Indies' heart and center through Macassar Strait; when, last week, on the easternmost flank of the Indian Archipelago, he squatted in the Bismarcks, the Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Guinea...
...coffee, quinine which the Jap's conquests brought him was his occupation of key points. A little farther and he could cut off the U.S. from all routes to the eastern battlefront except around Australia. But now the westernmost prong of the Japanese attack, in and around New Guinea, threatened even the U.S. route to Australia and raised yet another rampart across the Americas' Pacific routes...
Copies of a British scientific magazine which arrived in the U.S. last week contained a report by famed British biologist J. B. S. Haldane of his experiments in the physiology of submarine crews. One of his 20 human guinea pigs was Dr. Juan Negrin, Premier of Spain during the last days of the Civil War. Under terrific air pressure, 53-year-old Dr. Negrin and the other subjects (mostly exiles) writhed with the bends, screwed up their faces with the pain of hammering headaches, as Professor Haldane tested the bodily effects of gases at various pressures...
...Larger: Greenland, New Guinea...
...University of California. He tells his adventures in a new book, Plant Hunters in the Andes (Farrar & Rinehart; $5). Like all scientists who have pillaged foreign flora for the profit of U.S. agriculture, Goodspeed and his staff had no easy time. They slept in huts tumbling with guinea pigs, which Peruvians keep as pets. They rode along precipices on dynamite trucks. They broke the ice in hog troughs to wash their morning faces...