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...Rumania's five-day Jewish pogrom last January was featured by "kosher butchery," a monstrous parody of the Jewish ritual for killing animals by throat-slitting. "All Jewish men from 18 to 50 years of age have been drafted for forced labor. Their daily food ration is one-eighth of that provided for a Rumanian soldier...
Tanks can be stopped by fast-thinking, fast-moving defense. The U.S. Army learned that vital lesson last week during a five-day sham battle over slightly rolling country, straddling the borderline between the Carolinas, on a terrain well gridded with roads-good tank country...
...Last year doctors were agog over a new five-day treatment for early syphilis which used continuous, slow-drip injections of an arsenic compound. Experience has shown, said Dr. Moore, that while the five-day process is "excellent" for treating the syphilitic infection, it brings "an enormous increase in the danger to the patient." A number of patients so treated developed skin poisonings, neuritis, encephalitis. One out of every 300 died, a rate more than four times higher than that in standard treatment...
During the five-day battle, Ben Lear's engineers, ably supported by horsemen of Major General John Millikin's Second Cavalry Division, lingered far behind the main body as it retired to the north. They threw down tank barricades, planted thousands of mines that erupted smoke (and theoretical destruction) when tank or scout car disturbed them...
...worst headache of all-a coal strike -was at least temporarily relieved last week. A five-day strike of 43,000 miners in the captive mines of U.S. steel mills, demanding a closed shop, was called off for a month pending further negotiation. The five-day stoppage left steel companies with little more than a week's supply of coal on hand. From a defense standpoint, probably the only thing worse than a coal strike would be a steel strike-and steel itself cannot continue production without coal...