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...Kentucky carried 20,845 cars of coal, just 48 cars less than its all time record in the boom week of March 27, 1937. Any further increases in production are limited by: 1) the fact that many mines have not now the man power or machine power to shift to a six-day week; 2) such coal carriers as Norfolk & Western, Virginian, Chesapeake & Ohio (relatively prosperous and well-equipped roads) were so short of cars that they penalized any mine which failed to load within 24 hours every empty delivered on their switches-a state of affairs exactly the same...
Paradox of democratic countries is that as soon as one of them begins defending democracy, it ceases to be a democracy. Last week, with the Cabinet shift, France became a full-fledged totalitarian state. And Edouard Daladier, who retained the Foreign Ministry along with the Prime and Defense Ministries which he already held, became its dictator. He gathered around him, to help him draw up emergency decree laws, a collection of brilliant World War heroes. Among the seven new men in the Cabinet were at least ten wounds, three Croix de Guerre, over a dozen citations for bravery...
...practice in England. This time Naylor, writing for the Sunday Express, was too cautious to foretell war or peace. But last week he gave his opinion of war's outcome: "It will end suddenly and for reasons no man can know or foresee. The centre of government will shift to Canada eventually...
...gangrene were greatly reduced by immediate injections of vaccine, a treatment developed by famed U. S. Pathologist William H. Welch. The late Spanish war taught doctors a rapid, efficient blood-transfusion technique. But military surgery remains essentially a problem in organization, and doctors aim primarily to sort and shift casualties, to move them on like "factory goods on a conveyor belt." Experts claim that eight operating teams, of nine men each (including anesthetists and nurses), can handle 120 serious surgical cases in ten hours...
...radio advertisers on the idea of distributing war maps and sets of colored pins to the audience, hiring military experts to digest the news of the day, analyze the tactics, then devoting five sponsored minutes each evening on the air telling map-in-lap listeners where and why to shift their pins...