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Last week Lieut. Paul Robarge and two sergeants left the U.S. lines in central Tunisia to scout enemy positions. On the eastern side of a small valley separating Axis and Allied positions, Robarge and his men were startled by a medium-sized white dog, which stood stock-still and pointed toward them...
...armor is a bullet to shoot holes in so-called bulletproof gas tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile has a loose tubular jacket which sticks in the rubber lining and keeps the hole open. > Agar-agar, gelatinous medium essential for growing bacteria in the preparation of vaccines against typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and whooping cough, was practically a Japanese monopoly before Pearl Harbor. Japs quietly got much of it from seaweed beds along the U.S. Pacific coast, taking care that no one else knew the location. The University...
...anyone is ever successful, Ellington will be the man. There is no man living who can touch his combined genius for melody, orchestration, and conducting, in any realm of music. With the greatest jazz band in the world, with some of the best living soloists. Ellington has a superb medium for his ideas...
...plays, on such subjects as The Westward Movement and Immigration, were surprisingly well written, and the Workshopmen set about the task of producing them. Boston's short-wave station, WRUL, served as an adequate medium, even if practically no members of the student body were able to tune...
...Within six months the Browns bought and cleared a 156-acre tract, built a small shipyard of secondhand materials, rounded up a working force, purchased supplies and parts and launched the first subchaser. The Navy promptly gave the Browns more subchaser orders plus a contract for a medium-sized fleet of destroyer escorts-many-gunned convoy and anti-submarine craft which cost some $5,000,000. For this job the Browns designed and built a $6,000,000 shipyard, fitted it with timesaving devices like "swinging scaffolds" (which move as ship construction progresses) and prefabrication shops...