Word: journals
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Other bolters-of-the-week: Walter N. Rothschild, director of Abraham & Straus, huge Brooklyn department store; the Oregon Journal, traditionally Democratic Portland paper; Bess Streeter Aldrich, best-selling novelist and Hollywood scenarist; former Democratic Governor Charles H. Martin of Oregon, former Democratic Governor William A. Comstock of Michigan, Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland...
...Werner as non-resident members, and William M. Pinkerton as a resident. Eggleston, who will be here only for the first half year, is a labor columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and has studied at the University of California. Werner is assistant financial editor of the Milwaukee Journal, and has emphasized a simplified presentation of financial and business news through charts, photographs, and "humanized" writing style. Pinkerton is a Washington reporter for the Associated Press, a former student at the University of Wisconsin, and a specialist on problems of relief, power, transportation, and agriculture...
...boasted that Germany has a superbomb which could kill men by concussion and destroy everything within a radius of 1,600 ft. The distance was incredibly great, but death by concussion is an established wartime fact. In an article by Dr. Solly Zuckerman, famed Oxford anatomist, the British medical journal The Lancet last week described the damage, often fatal, which may be done to lungs by explosions...
...Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association last week, Dr. Hawker noted that surgical interference was necessary twice as frequently for the 102 heavyweights (14.7%) as for the whole series (7.2%). The ratio of the common head presentation to the uncommon breech presentation was the same for the big babies as for the whole group, but three out of four of the hindside-first heavyweight babies were lost. Altogether eight of the big babies died before or during delivery. But among their mothers there were only two cases of hemorrhage after birth, and not one mother died...
...last week the hectic steel rate did not look transitory. The Wall Street Journal pointed out a difference between 1940 and the classical overproduction year of 1937, in which steel output went into inventories, stayed there, caused the autumn depression. Trade reports indicate that steel inventories and steel backlogs are practically equal, backlogs being large enough to keep the mills at their present clip through the year's end, inventories being large enough to keep steel users supplied for no longer...