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Lieut. Bhagat continued gambling with death for 96 hours without halt. He was ambushed once, blown up once, had his eardrum split. The commander called Premindra Singh Bhagat's labor "the longest continued feat I have ever seen of sheer cold courage...
...longest (five hours) air raids in Chungking's three years of experience, the dugout's ventilation system had failed. The yellow vegetable-oil lamps had flickered out, one by one, for lack of oxygen. The thousands within had grown restive, then in panic had tried to force their way out all at once through the narrow twisting slits in the rock. Last official count of the dead: 461-a full half-season's toll in a single evening...
What did the longest lull on record mean...
...Longest-range solution has been hit upon by farmers themselves: mechanization. Sales of agricultural machinery are up 20% this year, bid fair to set an alltime record by year's end. To help farmers buy still more machinery, the Agriculture Department has lined up with the farm implement industry for preferred treatment on the materials (steel, aluminum, nickel, etc.) the industry needs. But one shortage always breeds another: in Illinois last week, farm equipment dealers complained that they couldn't keep enough good service men to make repairs...
Broadway last week reached the end of Tobacco Road. After seven and a half years, the 3,180th and last performance of history's longest continuously running drama was signalized by no valedictory speeches or mortuary effects. But in the third row sat slight, beaming Francis De Valiant, who was seeing the play for the 34th time and is, symbolically enough, advertising director of Fairchild Sons, Inc., New York undertakers...