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...bill which envisions a U.S. Navy of 35 battleships, 20 aircraft carriers, 15,000 airplanes, 88 cruisers, 378 destroyers, 180 submarines. Of the warships, 137 were under construction; 200 were hardly on paper. In service (as of last June 1) were only 1,786 airplanes (including 1,367 combat planes). Given $10,000,000,000, good luck, hard work, and an enormous increase of shipbuilding and aircraft facilities, the Navy hopes to have all its new vessels...
Belatedly the Home Defense chiefs thought of motorcycles, to mount couriers and fighting men to combat parachutists. Private owners were asked to contribute their machines...
...Ranchman Gill's horse threw him. Three months later, in Washington, D. C., Richard Gill was flat on his back and rigid with spastic (muscle-contracting) paralysis. He remained on his back for four years. Doctors had no drug to combat his condition. One "eminent specialist" said that curare (pronounced koo-rah-reh), which contains a muscle-relaxing principle, might help. But U. S. doctors had never been able to get enough pure curare to experiment with its properties...
...Congress' anxiety to forget about the destruction of democracy in Europe, one tenuous connection was allowed to continue. At sea was the Red Cross "mercy ship" McKeesport, which had started out for Bordeaux, heading straight into a combat zone without the necessary guarantee of safe conduct from belligerents. Before Congress was an Administration proposal to exempt Red Cross vessels from the Neutrality Act; otherwise the McKeesport might have to be ordered back. Cried West Virginia's lame-duck Senator Rush Holt: "This resolution of authority might be the spark. ..." Nevertheless, the resolution passed...
Tanks. Tom Girdler's Republic Steel Corp. last week prepared to make armor plate for tanks. Marmon-Herrington Co., truck & tractor maker, is doubling the capacity of its Indianapolis plant, had an order to build light combat tanks for the U. S. Army...