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John L. Lewis has been thinking thus, striding thus for a month. For three months he has been silent, reserving his fire. But possibly this week, certainly this month, he will come to a decision which may rock all labor, with repercussions spreading far into the U.S. body politic. For he has been and is debating whether to seize again the controls of the C.I.O.; and another decision just as great: whether to speak his mind about the Administration and its foreign policy-in effect, whether to declare himself an avowed enemy of Franklin Roosevelt...
...Italian planes successfully raided Gibraltar and all machines returned to Italy safely after sinking three British destroyers and leaving half of the Rock in flames following a petrol dump explosion...
...Stream, are warmer than the high country of Colorado, and its capital, Reykjavik, has about the same mean annual temperature as New York City. But while the island was a subject of various European nations during the last 1,100 years, its timber was exploited until its hills lay rock-naked as its lava wastes. New forests never grew because, in winter, shepherds would turn out their hungry flocks, which gnawed groves of saplings, preventing the regrowth of natural forests...
...Gladstone's taverns that night, loggers and their ladies drank toasts to King Jimmy and Queen Mary Jean before lapsing into the classic lumberjack's nightcap: all 42 verses of the ballad, The Jam on Garry's Rock...
...blue ground" (same as the geological formations of some of South Africa's famed mines) covers 44 acres, extends at least 200 feet underground. Chief difficulty in operating it: the cost, at-U.S. wage rates, of washing the 14,500,000 lb. of clay and rock it takes to extract a single pound of diamonds. Since the machine tool industry uses diamonds (world's hardest mineral) for cutting, this difficulty would be unimportant if control of the world's diamond supply, now tightly held by a British monopoly, should ever pass into Nazi hands...