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...openings in the Civilian Technical Corps now in training for work in Britain, the American Field Service for ambulance drivers willing to seek adventure in the Near East, the merchant marine, and countless other fields. Professor Casner keeps a finger on developments in defense industries, so that whenever a sudden demand for men arises, he can transfer the information at once to Seniors who might wish to grab at the opportunity...
Last year thoughtful people made no dates more than two days in advance. Future blitzes and sudden death colored every conversation. Listed divorces for the Michaelmas term numbered 797. A steady stream of children sought the country and safety. Women were not conscripted. Fire watching was not compulsory. Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal scooted around town in his big, black Humber...
Herr Hitler's submarines, by their most recent torpedoings, have given the people of this country some tangible alibi for urging Congress to scrap the Neutrality Act. The sudden outcry of "out-rage" and "dastardly rattlesnake" must be reminiscent, to those who lived through it, of the last war and the Lusitania...
...Lakehurst, N.J., he had a new 400,000-cu.-ft. blimp* called K3. It was the first new nonrigid airship Lakehurst had had in many a moon. After trial flights, K-3 will be ready for coastal patrol, the first of 48 blimps authorized by Congress, in a sudden appreciation of LTA. It was high time, thought Captain Rosendahl. In Lakehurst's dwindling complement were three aging tactical blimps (including two Army castoffs), one experimental ship and four others good only for training airship crews...
...physiotherapist for the Medical Room, has been taking plates ever since 1935, and it was he who put Conant under the "camera" several years ago to see if any bones had been cracked when the President's giddy career down an icy slope came to a sudden...