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BUDAPEST--Flects of huge German transport planes, each carrying nearly 100 Nazi troops, sped over Budapest into the Balkaus today while Rumania hurriedly strengthened lier military precautions against any surprise British bombings of the Rumanian oil fields...
Soon after lunch a five-car Presidential cavalcade sped from the White House out of Washington to U. S. 50 (the Defense Highway), twisted over the wet, slippery road, through piny woods and swamps on the way to Annapolis. With the President were Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Chief of Naval Operations Harold Stark, White House Secretary "Pa" Watson, Naval Aide Daniel Callaghan, eight Secret Service men. As there was no precedent for Lord Halifax's stepping down from the Foreign Office to become Ambassador to the U. S., so there was no precedent for President Roosevelt...
...pilot and ship got acquainted. Swaddled in a leather flying suit, stringy, 29-year-old Andy McDonough crawled into the cabin for the last trip, secured his capsule microphone alongside his Adam's apple, quickly checked over his instruments. Across the Buffalo Airport and into the air sped the Airacobra, tucking her three legs into her belly as she began to climb into a bright, blue...
...Rosary College in Illinois, she went on with her science studies. In 1930 she took her final vows as a member of the Dominican Sisters, became Sister Mary Jordan Carroll. Dr. George Sped Sperti, famed director of the Institutum Divi Thomae in Cincinnati, sent word that he had places for two able sisters on his research staff. Sister Mary Jordan Carroll went...
...answer to its demands for industrial expansion. When the boom ends, this caution may help Business to face a buyer's market with efficient plant, low overhead-may ease post-war adjustments. But the engine of industry did not speed up because of confidence burning within. It was sped up from without by the energy of wartime economy. Not moneymen but politicos had started it, and supplied the power to keep it going...