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...frantic doctor tried to find her, partly to save his precious radium but mostly to prevent the lady from getting radium burns. Presently the patient phoned to report that her little bandage had "come loose" (she had not been overexposed). It had disappeared into the hairdresser's plumbing, 19 floors up in a Madison Avenue skyscraper...
Guadalcanal to Tarawa. Under Turner's immediate command, the new amphibious forces invaded Guadalcanal. Screening warships, unaccustomed to this new kind of mission, were caught napping by Jap cruisers. In a few agonizing hours on a rainy August night, four Allied cruisers were sunk. Naked transports carrying precious supplies brought thousands of miles were hastily withdrawn. For three months the Marines fought without substantial supplies or reinforcements and cursed the Navy...
After weighing the evidence, Franco decided to sign a 100-million Reichsmark credit agreement with the Nazis, ostensibly liquidating his debt to Hitler for services rendered during the Spanish Civil War, actually enabling Germany to secure fresh supplies of strategic materials. Probable first German purchase: 800 tons of precious wolfram now stored on the French border and needed for armor-piercing steel. Probable second purchase: more wolfram, stored in Spain...
Director Hitchcock always appears for a moment in each of his films. It is his way of "signing" his pictures. But there was no room or excuse for him in the lifeboat. So in the middle of a news page-which has precious little business in Lifeboat either-Hitchcock planted himself, in bulbous profile, as the before-&-after model in a reducing...
Laboring over the cruel mountain "Hump Route" from India, a U.S. transport plane drew near its China base with 5,000 precious pounds of mail from home. The pilot, Lieut. Roy Thomas, noticed a scudding cloud ahead. Then...