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...that which went into effect Aug. i between the Vatican and Portugal (a dictatorship friendly to Britain). The Portuguese Government gave back to the Church nearly all the religious property it took over when Church & State were separated, gave civil value to Catholic marriages, promised to let the Church maintain its own schools...
Biggest electric-furnace operator in the industry* is Tom Girdler's Republic Steel Corp. Last week its operating chief, Vice President Charles M. White, announced that Republic was going to maintain this lead. With one 50-ton-per-shift, two 25-ton, three 15-ton, two 6-ton electric furnaces all going full blast, White announced that his Canton works would soon add two mammoth new electric furnaces with a combined capacity of 100 tons per shift, roughly a 50% increase in Republic's capacity...
...Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe faced its first really tough test. German pilots learned at Dunkirk, where R. A. F. definitely established local control, that they and their machines were individually inferior to the British. But the British had not enough planes to maintain superiority all over Britain if the Germans came over in thousands...
...patrol ship. At Guadeloupe, just north, lay the training cruiser Jeanne d'Arc. British cruisers prowled so near, defying the French to run for home, that jittery Martinique complained it was blockaded. U. S. warships in the Virgin Islands kept steam up for a dash to maintain the sanctity of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Neutral Zone." Without hindrance from the British, two U. S. steamers laden with food entered Martinique...
...ship. . . . The little Niger hippopotamus ... lay down with his head flat on the deck, and ceased to think. His great red eyes looked through me at I know not what. The fawn, the antelopes, and the river-hogs swayed on their cloven, pointed hooves as they tried to maintain their balance. No pride in their eyes now. . . . The buffalo was.swaying in his crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid back, like a mute trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness, still less any discomfort could diminish his voracity...