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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Timoshenko fought on the Eastern Front until the Revolution of 1917, then joined the Red Army and (by a process since abolished) was elected an officer. After the Whites whipped his Red unit in the Caucasus, Comrade Timoshenko escaped to Tsaritsyn, then defended by Red Army forces under Stalin and Voroshilov, with whom he became fast friends. They gave him command of a cavalry brigade and in 1920, while attacking Baron Wrangel's forces at Perekop in the Crimea, Timoshenko was severely wounded and his brigade was cut to pieces by the Whites...
Although big Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) has U. S. rights to the process for the manufacture of Buna-S, the German tire ersatz that shoes the wheels of Nazi military equipment, it is not yet ready for commercial production, nor have other synthetic rubbers made in the U. S. yet been shown commercially usable for tires. Last week, surveying its tiny stock pile, the U. S. rubber industry went into no panic, said not a word about the possibility of higher prices for tires. But the headlines helped speculators raise the price of spot rubber from...
Another innovation is the process of printing the Illustrated. This issue will be printed by the new photo-offset process rather than on a letter-press. This follows the lead of many magazines and several recently founded newspapers such as the Hartford Newsdaily and the forthcoming New York daily...
...trying to strangle Italian trade, but could not do so because Italy could carry her commerce in her own bottoms; 2) that Britain was trying to make Italy appear to be an aggressor in the Mediterranean. Air Marshal Italo Balbo's newspaper, Corriere Padano, tried to reverse the process. "The Allies have an urgent need to regain prestige they have lost," said Corriere Padano. "Can the Mediterranean supply that need?" Corriere Padano even went so far as to declare that Italy was becoming "ever more impatient ... to throw the intruder out of that sea." The British: "We are ready...
Generation ago, physicians spent most of their time rushing around to sick babies. Today, with scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles under control, most of their patients are oldsters. Although more than 30,000,000 persons in the U. S. are over 45, few doctors really know how the process of aging changes the human body. Last week in the New York Academy of Medicine, Cardiologist Ernst Philip Boas of Columbia, Neurologist Foster Kennedy of Cornell sounded off at a symposium on old hearts, old brains...