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...Lowell House Common Room last evening and speaking French always in a soft even voice, Capitaine de Covette Blaison of the Free-French submarine Surcouf told his listeners of the evacuation of Dunkirk and of training farmers and mechanics to man his submarine, and expressed the opinion that 90 percent of the Frenchmen in Occupied France are behind De Gaulle...
After the Free-French navy was organized by three men in a room in the Dorchester Hotel in London, Blatson was made second in command of the Surcouf. He had never served in a and before and only 35 percent of the enlisted personell were men who had scan service in submarines...
...stationery store quoted a 33 percent rise in wholesale notebook prices, and its owner worriedly predicted a further increase. Priority restrictions were damned by several men, who complained bitterly that they were having trouble getting metal goods. Chlorine, used in paper bleaching, is not now easily available for that purpose and future paper may have a slightly greyish appearance...
...would rather see 55 percent of the people for helping Russia, knowing the truth, than 99.9 percent of them for it befuddled by mental opiates. Thomas Matters...
...Seventy percent of the nation's entire production of light tanks, "jeeps," armored trucks, scout cars was imperiled, according to the War Department, by a dispute at Spicer Manufacturing Corp., makers of truck transmissions. Reason: squabble between A.F. of L. Montagues & C.I.O. Capulets. Because transmissions are the guts of any shaft-driven car, production of combat cars was threatened at the American Car & Foundry plant in Berwick, Pa., at Ford, White Motor Co., Willys-Overland...