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...week after he had laid down his plan for cotton farmers (TIME, Dec. 18), the busy Secretary of Agriculture, Claude E. Wickard, popped up in St. Paul. There he straight-armed the wheatgrowers with a plan to avoid the postwar production of surplus wheat...
...college students for his four-volume History of Modern Europe, Carlton Hayes had no diplomatic experience until he went to Spain in 1942. A front-rank Catholic layman who got on well with Dictator Franco, he was often criticized, mostly by the left-wing press, as an "appeaser." To avoid embarrassing President Roosevelt in an election year, he offered his resignation. Refused then, it is sure to be accepted...
...windpipe) to provide an air entrance through the neck. (Common peacetime use: to save children strangling from diphtheria.) Even under the best conditions, the operation is risky; surgical books say that a good light is essential, that the patient's neck must be held very steady to avoid cutting the nearby jugular veins. While Lieut. Eberling held the struggling rifleman down, Private Kinman had to do as best he could by the murky light of the battlefield...
...Naturally they do not crowd around American troops . . . they do not even give a sign that they are aware the Americans are there. Now and again some aged man will find it impossible to avoid the eye of an American, and frequently he will lift a finger to the peak of his cap in a salute neither servile, nor military, nor insolent. American troops have seen nothing quite like these people...
...last week Pacific Mills of Lawrence, Mass, paid OPA a fine of $2,165,842.02, the biggest cash settlement for alleged ceiling violation in the history of the Price Control Act. The company denied any violations, but paid the fine to avoid "expensive and energy-consuming litigation...