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...East St. Louis school while members of the Parent-Teacher Association discussed "Children in a Changing World" some children stole the adults' lunch and locked them in the building...
Behind the republics was a record of Good Neighborliness that includes parallel export control systems (in some instances more stringent than the U.S. parent system); an enforced blacklist (U.S.-drafted) of Axis-influenced firms; 80 to 100 Axis ships immobilized in Latin American ports for hemisphere use; agreements whereby the U.S. gets first call (literally an airtight monopoly) on vast supplies of strategic materials...
After the Senate Committee criticised OPM last May for the nation's aluminum shortage, OPM did finally name Kalunite's parent company (Olin Corp.) to operate a Government-owned plant. But OPM did not specify whether alunite ore could be used, hemmed & hawed over location of the plant. Eichelberger wanted to build on tidewater at Tacoma, use Bonneville Dam power. He called on Clifton H. Chadwick, an OPM consulting engineer, to suggest this plan. His description of the meeting: "I was treated with all the courtesy of a cross-eyed stepchild." Later Chadwick visited the site, ruled that...
Sulfanilamide, the parent drug, was first tried on a wide variety of bacterial infections. At present its use is limited mainly to meningitis, erysipelas, urinary-tract infections. It is easy to take, "well handled by the body and excreted without difficulty," but it brings about two "exceedingly common" complications: anemia and cyanosis (lack of oxygen). On the whole, it is "less effective therapeutically than other related compounds and is being supplanted by them." It is the only sulfonamide compound which can be given rectally with success...
...reduce its deliveries of firm power to nearby Duke Power Co., stop drawing down reservoir water, in effect keep its power for itself. To help explain the South's dire straits, FPC had already turned to an old Government scapegoat, Aluminum Co. of America (Carolina Aluminum's parent). Alcoa, said FPC, had too long relied on cheap seasonal dump power. Smart management in peace, this practice now meant that Alcoa had to drain 150,000 kw. from other customers to keep producing through what used to be its slack season...