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...business was routine. The Council gave a $1-a-day raise (to $6) to rangers who search Maine's woods for lost persons; it increased one liquor inspector's salary from $33 to $39 a week; and approved various appointments of notaries public and justices of the peace. The meeting lasted an hour. Then the Council sat down to a feast of deer liver, bear steak and biscuits...
...asked if the delay was not caused by failure to use all available merchant marine ships, speculated on whether enough idle bottoms had been pressed into service as troop carriers, wondered if the Army had not failed to "act aggressively." The soldier editors ap pealed to Washington newspapermen to search out "the truth...
...Liberty. Eduard Benes grew up in a search for freedom. He was born, the last of a family of ten children, under a peasant's roof...
World War II halted his search for a while. Commissioned a first lieutenant, he did photo reconnaissance with the 12th Bomber Group, was wounded in North Africa. A fortnight ago, healed and discharged, he went to Great Brewster Island to take up once more the search for the legendary gold...
Researchers looked hard and long for a drug to cure tuberculosis. When it appeared hopeless to get rid of the germs without hurting the patient, interest in the search slowed up. Then the discovery of sulfanilamide dramatized the fact that chemicals can fight bacteria safely-not by killing them, but by hampering their vital processes. The search for a tuberculosis cure was revivified. No one has the answer yet, but new clues are turned up every week. Recent ones...