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Shaking down in the Caribbean last week was the first of a new class of monster aircraft carriers, the Midway - the U.S. Navy's and the world's mightiest warship. As a fighting machine, the Midway seemed to have everything: her flight deck was armored; thousands of tons of alloy steel encased her vitals; she had 200,000 h.p. to drive her 45,000 tons (60,000 or more at full load) at better than 33 knots; in her new, long-barreled 5-inch guns there was fire power to keep an enemy away while 120 planes operated...
...cream which would evenly reflect all lights, thus keep faces or lips from fading out. Then came the "hair lace wig," which added years of professional life to balding oldsters like Bing Crosby, Charles Boyer, Jack Benny and Fred Astaire, and molded rubber faces for Frankenstein's monster & Mr. Hyde. He also devised a foolproof method for other make-up men to use. He catalogued all women's faces in five basic types, i.e., Claudette Colbert has a "diamond" face, Ann Sheridan a "square" face, etc. The same technique is applied in making up all faces...
...that it would not pass in its present form. At the same time the Congress-which had been squinting at atomic power almost as confidently as at those Lilliputian mavericks, the budget and the tariff-suddenly admitted to itself that it did not know what to try next. The monster seemed to be getting bigger, more red-eyed and more terrifying with every passing...
...Europe. If tomorrow you hear of suffering, disease, starvation and death on a large scale unknown before in times of peace, remember that that was in the first place the curse of Hitler and in the second place the dreadful responsibility of the German people who allowed such a monster to become their master...
...earliest version of the legend: around 800 A.D. there lived in northwest Britain a Pictish chief named Tristan, who slew a ravening monster and married a beautiful princess. From that point on, the story grew-with embroidery and embellishments...