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When the U. S. Government moved its great gold hoard into the underground strongboxes at Fort Knox, Ky., it left vacant a number of gold vaults in the U. S. Treasury in Washington. Last week the Public Health Service used these to start another kind of hoard-drugs, especially drugs which World War II has made more & more difficult to import. High on this list is quinine, most of which is imported from the war-threatened Netherlands East Indies. Others: opium, morphine...
Born Skriabin in 1890, he was a son of a store clerk and turned revolutionist early. He took the name Molotov (Hammer) in 1914. During World War I he organized Bolshevik groups in Moscow, was exiled to Siberia, escaped and went underground in Petrograd. During the February Revolution he was a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee and collaborated with Lenin and Stalin. In 1922, during the Lenin-Trotsky split, Stalin replaced Molotov as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Molotov stayed on as Stalin's assistant, proved his loyalty during the Stalin-Trotsky...
...oceans and seas," says Dr. Gamow, "will boil. It is difficult to imagine any living being left on the surface of the earth under such conditions, though the progress of technique during the next few billions of years . . . may make it possible to dig safe, air-conditioned underground cellars for humanity or even to transport the whole population of the earth to some distant planet. . . ." Even at the increasing rate of hydrogen consumption, the sun has enough left for ten billion years. Thus it has five-sixths of its life to live as a normal star. But when the hydrogen...
...Chancellorship; in 1934 he was murdered. Otto, from 1930 on, set to work organizing his Black Front. The top fourth stayed aboveground. The rest took places high & low in every Party except the Communist, and bored from within. When Hitler came into power the whole Black Front went underground or, by thousands, into concentration camps. Otto, melodramatically helped by various Black-Fronters, fled the country, started his years of writing and smuggling through revolutionary flimsies and stickers. In Vienna, in Prague, in Switzerland, in Saarbrükken, he had a series of escapes from the long arm of the Gestapo...
Ireland's hatches were thus battened about as tight as they could be, except for one factor-the outlawed, extreme-nationalist I. R. A. Nothing short of the unification of all Ireland under its own brand of fascism suits the hotheaded Irish Republican Army, which maintains a complete underground government (and constitution) of its own. Since 1938 its 7,500 youthful members (plus 15,000 fellow travelers) have followed the wild-eyed, bomb-Britain policy of 46-year-old, super-radical Chieftain Sean Russell. There is reason to believe that the intransigent I. R. A.-sters are getting money...