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Arkansas had always had many a precious asset: its lovely Ozark vacation country; duckhunting that lured wealthy sportsmen from all over the Midwest; modern cities; high schools and colleges whose enrollment doubled between 1930 and 1940; native sons like General Brehon Somervell, General Douglas MacArthur; heroes like lawyer-author-soldier Albert Pike. Now Arkansas began to flap its wings and tell the world...
There Is No Day. At every step of the advance the Germans paid in blood & steel. At the points of greatest crisis the Red Army brought up its precious KV tanks-precious because they were Russia's best and because they were so few. Censors permitted the first description of them. The KV (for Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov) is a massive 46-tonner, with a 76-mm. main gun and thick armor which turns shells from enemy 75s and is often proof against fire from the Germans' famed 88s. The Russians say that it is almost fireproof, a decided...
...plan for the conquest of Russia is not only to stab at her vitals, but to smother her to death: to cut the remaining routes by which she receives supplies from her allies. Far north of the probing German armies last week the German Navy risked its precious little neck to go prowling for a huge Allied convoy...
Once called the "Benevolent Folly," the pawnshop now has eight branches in Buenos Aires alone, handles everything from tools to art collections and precious ' jewels. In 60 years it has changed one of history's most ill-famed businesses into a popular institution. Profits last month were converted into an 80-bed hospital...
...waste in such motor tests is prodigious. A 2,200 h.p. engine burns up some 2,000 gallons during a twelve-hour test. And plane engines cannot burn anything but precious 100 octane...