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...Precious supplies of tin, rubber, aluminum at the bottom of the ocean would leave us in a pretty position to follow Teddy Roosevelt's advice: "Speak softly and carry a big stick." We will speak softly all right if we permit Britain to go down, but Adolf will carry the big stick...
...heavy equipment off. Apparently the British lost most of the armament of the one armored brigade and whatever heavy artillery was on hand. Previously Prime Minister Churchill had said that the Libyan border had been left to the defense of one armored brigade. This sounded as though there were precious little armored equipment left the British in the Near East...
...plane (which will fly the diamonds to safety) in a grass basket suspended from a cable across a treacherous ravine, the basket's supports are shot away from the cable pulley. Undaunted, she grasps the pulley with her bare hands and completes the slide with her precious cargo...
...moving over the oceans, there is too much work for the 2,247,633 tons of U.S. shipping (exclusive of tankers) now in ocean service. With Nazi sinkings averaging about 60% more than building of new ships by Britain and the U.S. together (TIME, April 28), ships grow more precious by the hour. In Australia and New Zealand are piled up tons of butter and cheese which England needs desperately. Attempts to move the big Australian wheat crop were abandoned several months ago for England can get its wheat by a shorter haul from Canada. Only a fraction...
...Eggs, butter, potatoes were more precious than jade...