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...Italians had at least one 35,000-ton battleship (probably the Littorio), with 15-in. guns; the Trento and the Trieste, heavy cruisers with 8-in. guns; three or four light, 6-in.-gun cruisers of the Condottieri class, and a destroyer screen. None of the British light cruisers could match the Trento or Trieste, much less the battleship. Admiral Vian invoked the tactics which dogged the Graf Spee to suicide in 1939. His light force laid down an intricate smokescreen, then peppered and confused the heavier enemy with darting attacks and withdrawals...
...Dutch coast and left it sinking. In another engagement a British vessel fought off three E-boats until its ammunition was gone, damaged one, retired. A squadron of Spitfire fighters sighted four E-boats, one of them crippled from a previous clash. The Germans put up a screen of flak, but the British planes dived right through it, opening up with their 20-mm. cannon. All four of the Germans were hit and one caught fire. The German fusillade punched 150 holes in one of the Spitfires and broke its elevator cable. But its pilot kept...
Aussies used to think that they had a protecting screen in the islands which lie off Australia's northern and eastern shores: New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomons, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia. But in Japanese hands these islands could be either invasion steps toward Australia or walls between Australia and the U.S. If Australia is thoroughly walled in, the Japanese can take their time about invading it and turn against India or Russia...
...male reproductive spore) is a startlingly rich source of proteins and fats, contains carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. This discovery was announced last week by James I. Hambleton, chief U.S. apiarist at Beltsville, Md. Apiarist Hambleton and co-workers have invented a trap to collect pollen by the ton: a screen doorstep in front of a beehive, which brushes pollen off the hairy legs of bees and drops it into a box below. As much as 70 lb. of pollen can be gathered each year from a single hive...
Tailor-made for Miss Shearer, who has been off the screen for a year, Dancing is a costly, embarrassing picture, whose mood and manners are both dated and false...