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...trade routes. They must be supplied. The British need ships to live. They must be supplied. Under the Lend-Lease Act, British ships may be repaired in U. S. ports. (This week a dam aged British cruiser was headed for Nor folk for repairs that will throw an added load on the yard.) They must be repaired...
With her windows looking out over Plymouth Sound, Lady Astor could not help knowing that a convoy had just arrived. The port was ship-filled, and the freighters were freshly warped in to un load their instruments of defense. It was these ships and the docks and the warehouses after which the bombers had come, and were to come another night. This was part of the new German pattern...
...with a Hindu; an Abyssinian woman with her simian face smeared with rancid butter to keep vermin away; an old bishop who knew the strange, sad, lame poet-adventurer Rimbaud, France's Byron, when he lived in Harar; a beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood on her head as if it were a tiara ; a big black with a lion cub on a leash; an Abyssinian policeman who looks ferocious with leaves stuffed in his nostrils (he just has a cold) ; a leper from the Capuchin colony outside the walls; a crisp Italian...
...superpower, air-cooled engine-a 1,700-horse-power Wright Double-Row Cyclone. Curtiss-Wright announced that XSB2C-I is 100 miles an hour faster than any dive-bomber now in the air, which would put its top speed around 350 m.p.h. And it will carry twice the load of today's best. Since the Stuka Junkers 87 carries a maximum bomb load of 1,100 Ib., airmen could well assume that Helldiver, 1941 can carry better than a ton in its roomy belly. What also pleased Navy men was XSB2C-I's range (600 miles farther...
...produces this load of lunacy is none other than amiable Jim Moran. He is Professor Briggs. He is his own musical director, a job that involves nothing more than changing records as he goes along. He is also the Slo-Gro Corp. Softspoken, Virginia-born, 33-year-old Joker Moran is famous for having hunted for a needle in a haystack (see cut), sold an icebox to an Eskimo, reenacted the battle of Bunker Hill with twelve strabismic stooges to prove that Colonel Prescott was silly when he issued the command: "Don't fire until you see the white...