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...John Rock, for a continued study in women of ovulation, fertilization, tubal migration of ovum, cleavage and nidation...
...Corregidor and its three satellite forts between the jaws of his artillery. He bit down hardest on Corregidor, hurling shells from the heights of Bataan on the north and from the flats of Cavite on the east. He knew that The Rock was going to need a lot of pounding...
...recent years, the Russians have begun to extract oil from Cambrian rock, imbedded in thousands of square miles of Siberia. They also have regular oil wells in the Urals and east of the Volga. From these sources, Russia, according to Hindus, got 5,500,000 tons of oil in 1938-more than Germany is getting from all its synthetic plants...
With an eye to the technical advances of the military art as well as to the fortunes of war, Corregidor can observe another anniversary this week. Forty-four years ago, on May Day, Commodore George Dewey slipped in past The Rock on a starlit night. A signal light from The Rock flashed the warning of his fleet's approach, but only a gun on El Fraile (now Fort Drum) spat futilely at the Olympia and her following ships. Next morning the Spanish fleet, cornered like huddled rabbits off Cavite, was bashed to bits...
...Japanese fleet cannot sail in that easily. Corregidor's guns still rule Manila Bay after five months of pounding, and no sizable enemy ship has yet slipped past The Rock. But it will be a sad anniversary, nonetheless, with the U.S. taking it instead of handing it out in Manila...