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...World War I, 25.3% of the first 1,500,000 U.S. citizens examined for the Army were illiterate. The average soldier had only half completed the seventh grade of grammar school. No figures were available last week on the number of illiterates in the draft, but the average soldier has finished his third year of high school...
...book contains something more than a wealth of anecdotes about W. C. Durant, William Knudsen, Henry Ford, the Dodge Brothers, the Fisher Brothers, many another automotive bigshot-something not generally understood or valued in the U.S., something that must be read mostly between the lines: the story of what Grade A business management means and can achieve. It is the inadvertent self-revelation of a resourceful organizing genius who is a really great manager, but not in Mr. Burnham's sense. The greatness of Sloan's achievement is that he took the vast rambling collection of companies which...
...skillful use of bacteriophages, low-grade infections often are rendered trivial; acute infections may be aborted; deep-seated lesions may heal without drainage; and desperate conditions may be caused to heal in a surprising manner...
Lean, sad Director Clair made his first English picture with Grade A Playwright Robert Sherwood. It was The Ghost Goes West, a satiric fantasy about an amorous Scottish shade, and it was a ten-strike (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936). But The Flame of New Orleans, scripted by Norman Krasna (Bachelor Mother), is no equal of The Ghost. Occasional touches-word of La Dietrich's honky-tonk past conveyed from ear to ear at her introduction to New Orleans' society, a wedding gown floating mysteriously down the Mississippi, shutters opening drowsily on the quay at dawn-give proof that...
...shopworkers' strike. He tried to make his workers feel the railroad was theirs too, keynoted his advertisements: "70,000 of us invite you to ride our railroad." So in the dark winter of 1931-32 labor listened when he told them the carriers could not make the grade unless labor took a 10% wage...