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...Whitney aircraft engines, gave a Bronx cheer to unofficial Army explanations that Ford was best qualified to make the engines and that the engines were needed. The Defense Commission's ClOman Sidney Hillman put in his protest when Ford got another order: $2,000,000 worth of midget combat trucks to replace the Army's motorcycles...
...Ethiopian tribesmen in our gold pile. The New Dealer's inflation which lie fears would at least come by wilful choice; but the tremendous excess reserves now in the banking system could just as easily finance a major boom which both Treasury and Reserve Board would find hard to combat. And experience has proved that in time of crisis the government disbursements, for defense or for relief, will be financed by any and every means available. Issuing billions of dollars of modern Liberty Loans may yet be necessary. In the trying financial days ahead, when consumer income goes...
...ships (17 battleships, twelve carriers, 54 cruisers) are being built on the Atlantic coast, but 204 destroyers are parceled out all over the place-to such firms as Gulf Shipbuilding Corp. of Chickasaw, Ala., Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Consolidated Steel Corp. at Orange, Tex. Exclusive of combat types, Chairman Vinson's summary listed 1,770 other craft, ranging from 564 rubber boats (built by Goodyear, presumably for Marine landing parties) to lighters, harbor tugs and minesweepers. Summarizing this intelligence, Carl Vinson announced that during 1940 the Navy had set down $6,558,068,570 in contracts...
Proving there's nothing new under the sun is TIME'S reference (Dec. 30) to experiments of Dr. Robert Marshall Stephan with urea to combat tooth decay. Gaius Valerius Catullus, about 2,000 years ago, wrote: (Ad Egnatius, Canto XXXIX) ". . .We know the Spanish custom, how Spaniards clean their teeth and scour their gums with the same water that issues from their bladders. ... If your teeth are clean, we know how you have used your urine...
Among the tribulations of combat pilots are the flare of searchlights, the crump of bursting ack-ack shells. Another kind of flier, the duck, finds the same things just as annoying. Month ago the 198th Coast Artillery, at Camp Upton, L. I., postponed its aerial target practice because hunters complained that the firing was scaring away wild ducks. Last week the 198th fell foul of the birds again...