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...painstakingly passed on $1,000,000,000 of equipment contracts. Aircraft Coordinator George Jackson Mead placed $100,000,000 of plane orders, got tape-wound Army & Navy bureaus to simplify their contradictory, wasteful systems of testing and buying planes and engines. Commissioner Stettinius cheerily reviewed his studies of raw materials which the U. S. would need and might not have in wartime, said: "The situation . . . is more hopeful than we anticipated six weeks ago. . . ." For an example of heartening speed, he told of hearing about a stock of tungsten and antimony "near Indo-China." The supply was bought, loaded...
...mind the Latin-American police duty for which he has been told to prepare the Regular Army. But his immediate reason was less ominous. He wanted to give the guardsmen intensive training, then use them to absorb and train the conscripts, rather than dilute the Regular Army with raw men. Last week the President set out to get George Marshall part of what he wanted. Announced at the White House was a plan to call out four National Guard divisions, totaling about 50,000 men in twelve States all over the nation, seven anti-aircraft regiments-when & if Congress agrees...
...sleeps and worries about not sleeping there. He wakes up ten times every night, and has by his pillow ten kinds of sleeping potions. Because of his insomnia he likes to nap during the day, and has frequently been caught snoozing through Diet speeches. He has the Japanese delicacy, raw fish, dipped in boiling water before he will eat it; and he sterilizes apples with a spray of alcohol. He scarcely uses alcohol for anything but a disinfectant, however, and smokes little...
...Congress should immediately enact legislation mobilizing the entire economic and military resources of the nation to meet the national emergency which is upon us. Such legislation . . . should enable . . . [the President] to have complete control over raw materials and to establish a system of priorities which would assure precedence in our industrial production to arms, munitions, and other essential military equipment...
...deaths. His method: instead of lengthy and painstaking work in old-fashioned suturing and splinting (sewing up wounds and applying strips of wood in the bandage like stays in a corset), the wound is thoroughly trimmed of all germ-breeding dead tissues, soothed with vaseline gauze and sealed raw in a swiftly and easily wound-on cast of bandages soaked in plaster of Paris...