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...production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this Government. But we knew that our enemies were on the search for it. We know now how close they were to finding it. And we knew the disaster which would come to this nation, and to all peaceful nations, to all civilizations, if they had found it first...
Ever since, its engineers have poked into the earth's crust in search of deposits of vanadium, tungsten, chromium and other rare metals. In Peru it controls the world's largest vanadium deposits, and a leaching plant nearly three miles above sea level...
...Alger never succeeded in freeing himself from his father's domination, never quite grew up. At the age of 50, he still liked to play with blocks. He sometimes disguised himself in a long cape and a tousled wig and went wandering through Manhattan's streets - in search of material, he said. He preferred the company of bootblacks and match boys to that of adults. He liked to beat the big drum in the band that was organized at the Newsboys' Lodging House, where he spent most of his leisure hours...
Strictly Pink Tea. Lieut. Commander White, very much on guard, decided to stay on the bridge with the Jap captain during the search. For two and a half hours they held what White called "a strictly pink-tea conversation." The Jap captain, who said he had spent ten years in New York City as a youth, asked how the New York Yankees were doing, wanted to know if Babe Ruth was still alive, said he missed American movies and magazines. (When they went back to their ship, the Americans sent over some old copies of TIME and the Reader...
Kruger led his handful of men against thousands of British regulars for six months, then made a desperate trip to Europe in search of aid. He died in Switzerland in 1904, and it was left to mere youths such as Smuts, Botha and Hertzog to build and shape today's Anglo-Boer Dominion of South Africa...