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...collected fish, snails, crabs, sea worms, sea cucumbers, sea cradles, sea urchins, sea hares, starfish, octopi, mussels, anemones, shrimps, limpets, conches, sponges, hundreds of other creatures with fancy Latin names. Although they were not looking for rarities, about 10% of their 550 species proved to be new. They were stung by urchins, morays, anemones, stingrays and stinging worms. Their hands, cut by barnacles, became first a welter of sores and then horny-callused. They caught and ate tuna, skipjack and sierra, tried unsuccessfully to eat a turtle; they drank beer and whiskey; they bathed by jumping over the side; they...
...Chungking's celebration was soon ended. The Japanese Army, stung by its Central China defeat, suddenly uncorked a drive in North China. Crossing the muddy Yellow River, a three-year-old barrier to Japanese advance, it seized the strategic rail center of Chengchow. If the Japanese could consolidate and drive from Chengchow west along the railway toward Sian, their achievement would be greater than the conquest of Changsha...
Last week the British were able to report that there had not been a single alarm over London in the month of August. During the week only two British towns, Hull and Newcastle, were bombed. But over Germany, day and night, the R.A.F. stung scores of cities with hundreds of planes at a time. Berlin suffered what the censor agreed was "one of the liveliest raids of the war." This week the British gave Berlin what they said was the heaviest. Such heavy raids could not be without cost. And this week London reported two Flying Fortresses missing -the first...
Last fall Zivic fought young Davis in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Zivic gave the kid the business. Davis, stung by an alleged thumb-poke in the eye, forgot his professional acquaintanceship with the Marquess of Queensberry, relapsed into a fury of fouls. Disqualified and suspended "for life" (after kicking the referee), the Brownsville bully boy sullenly joined the Army...
...Stung by the Senate's remarks on its (and Alcoa's) slowness in meeting the aluminum shortage (TIME, July 7), OPM also announced that TVA and Alcoa had agreed on construction of 100,000 kw. of hydro capacity at Fontana, N.C., ending a long squabble over who would pay for the project. (TVA grabbed the check, subject to getting funds from Congress...