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...Gracie raised Cain on the air, popping up on countless programs in search of her supposedly missing brother. The search went on for months, got to be a coast-to-coast gag. It also boosted Burns & Allen's radio popularity tremendously...
...Navies of both sides are the agencies for fighting out this war of convoy and blockade, not only of food supplies but of oil, war materials and metals. (Last week in London and Paris search parties were already on the prowl for junk and scrap.) Reviewing this war's first six months, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill was able to say last week: "Where do we stand on balance? . . . We lost 63,000 tons of warship or about half the losses in the first six months of the last war." Same time Mr. Churchill admitted, since...
...When England violates the rights of peoples this appears justified in the eyes of the democracies, as police are justified when they invade private homes and search and sequestrate property in order to bring criminals to justice...
...while he was working on the University observatory grounds at Oak Ridge that Leet first conceived of a new application of the delicate seismograph. Noticing extraordinary vibrations recorded on his instrument, he conducted search of the neighborhood and found that laborers were blasting nearby. At that point he decided to investigate artificial earthquakes caused by the dynamite...
...heart. Undaunted, he studied medicine, got a post as assistant surgeon in the Navy. He fell ill in China, was twice invalided home from the Mexican War, once with coast fever, again with wounds and raging typhus. Undaunted still, he went on an expedition in 1850 to search the Arctic for Sir John Franklin, who had been missing for five years. Later he was put in command of a second search party. Despite scurvy, dying dogs, desertions and a ship frozen in the ice pack, he made valuable meteorological, geological, magnetic, tidal, glacial and botanical surveys. At one time...