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Rallying around Bill Gallon's barn, the Johnston kinfolk celebrated with mint juleps, received from their host prints of the precious photo finish that had won the hallowed Hambletonian in Owner Johnston's first...
...three directions lie great deposits of oil, precious as man power to mechanized war: north, on both sides of the Caspian, but principally in and around Baku; west, in Iraq with its colossal double pipeline stretching from Kirkuk clear to the coasts of Syria and Palestine; south, at the head of the Persian Gulf (the richest single oil field in existence, controlled by the British Government for its Royal Navy...
...some prices have shot up as much as 200%. Synthetic drugs, such as arsenic compounds for syphilis, or sulfa drugs for infections, are still plentiful, but of the 300 plants commonly used in medicine, only 31 are grown commercially in the U.S. and those in small quantities. Many precious herbs could be grown in the U.S. and in South America, but their successful culture would take years of careful breeding, would bring little profit. Besides, domestic plants sometimes yield weaker drugs than their ancient foreign relatives...
Said he: "You must remember that while targets for bombing are almost limitless, bombers are limited and precious. ... Oil fields are scattered and the harm likely to be done by bombing is problematical. . . . The idea that any British capital invested abroad would have the slightest effect upon the decisions taken by the air force is utterly fantastic...
...high time for this decision. In turning out 5,200,000 cars and trucks this year (1929 record: 5,400,000), Detroit had used up precious tons of steel, aluminum, chrome, nickel-not to mention hours of skilled labor and machine tools -needed for defense. In Army and Navy files were scores of cases where military contracts were delayed while parts manufacturers completed orders for Detroit. Last week J. Leonard Replogle, tough-minded director of steel supply on Barney Baruch's World War I Industries Board, called 1941's heavy automobile production "an inexcusable performance. . . . Will some German...