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...Canadian Government was delighted. But it was less interested in the opening of new gold mines than in the possibility of increased postwar employment in the gold fields. In the peak year (1941), 33,500 men worked in the Dominion's gold mines. Said Deputy Mines Minister Charles Camsell last week: "The gold mines will employ 67,000 men at the very minimum soon after the war ends...
...Burma-Yunnan border, went U.S. Tenth Air Force planes from India to help the Chinese in their stone-by-stone reconquest of the walled city. Near by, U.S. and Chinese engineers literally blew the top off Sungshan Mountain with three tons of TNT. The Japs manning the peak went with it. One more step toward reopening the Burma Road was taken...
Last winter the Force turned up in Italy; along the road to Cassino they captured peak after mountain peak. Then they moved to the Anzio beachhead. There for 99 nights they painted their faces black and roamed through the German positions. The diary of a dead German paid them their most cherished tribute: "The black devils are all around us every time we come into the line and we never hear them come...
...polio epidemic, worst in the U.S. since 1916, was still rising last week. A total of 1,250 new cases, up 235 from the week before, was reported for the week ending Aug. 19, and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis predicted that the curve would rise to a peak some time in the fortnight between Sept. 5 and 19. The Foundation rushed epidemic aid to 13 states (hardest hit: New York. North Carolina, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia). At least two major cities. Buffalo and Washington, had attacks even worse than...
...June it is possible to estimate roughly how high the curve will rise in any given year (see chart). Though the disease is commonly supposed to be promoted by hot weather, the Foundation's charts indicate that weather has little to do with it; the U.S. peak almost invariably comes in mid-September, regardless of the temperature (a notable exception: 1931, when the peak came at the end of August). The disease also seems to have a general cycle of four or five years-a fact which makes it possible to determine the general areas where polio is most...