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High above him a bomber circled, while an observer took movies of one of the great naval battles of World War II. He caught the zigzag wakes of six warships, dodging a shower of bombs, the telltale circulars of two stricken aircraft carriers steaming out of control, the streaking course of bellowing dive-bombers blasting at stricken ships...
...uncover Paulette Goddard's back. They think she is a certain woman spy who has had U. S. naval blueprints tattooed on her back, and they spend a good deal of the picture leering suggestively at Paulette's back and taking snapshots of it while she is in the shower. She alternately cowers and bristles at all this, but the end sees her foiling the heavies and winning her man. Happily, this, is accomplished with a minimum of seriousness, and the proceedings are frothy but funny...
...Mohorovicic kept her newborn baby warm by snuggling him inside her lifebelt. Then a rescue ship drew alongside. The newborn child was handed up to a startled seaman. No assistance was needed for sturdy, 28-year-old Desanka Mohorovicic. She clambered up the cargo net, took a shower before she turned in. Last week, in a Norfolk, Va. hospital, she was feeling fine, getting ready to join her husband, an attache of the Yugoslav Consulate in Manhattan. Said she in her uneasy English: "Everyone was good to me." Said gallant Dr. Conly: "A brave, lovely woman...
From innermost China the oil came, in bamboo-&-paper buckets, wooden tubs, in second-hand steel oil drums. After the eastern ports were lost, the oil moved down the Burma Road, under constant bombardment. The last consignments shoved off from Rangoon under a shower of bombs, shortly before the advancing Japanese captured the city in March- leaving the U.S. hereafter to fend for tung itself...
...confusion aplenty. The 16 yards operated independently but often interchanged parts like plates, boilers, propellers, etc., if it seemed expedient. Most Todd-Bath yards string along the Atlantic Coast, 3,000 miles from Kaiser's Pacific Coast yards. This meant long hauls for interchanged parts, delay, a steady shower of yard-to-yard wires and memoranda. Henceforth Todd communication lines will string between twelve yards instead of 16. Said Henry Kaiser, "We felt that each could do more alone...