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...distance at sea; loss of a ship would be small loss, cost no lives; construction is fast, cheap, would involve small amounts of critical materials (10% as much steel as a 2,000-ton freighter) would use labor from the building trades, where the manpower shortage is least stringent; the ratio of cargo-to-ship weight would equal that of a tanker...
...Among stringent divorce States, New Jersey prepared to fight; New York, to yield. Said New Jersey's Representative Donald H. McLean: "There will be resentment from other States whose public policy has been to prevent mail-order and perfunctory divorces." New York's Solicitor General Henry Epstein disagreed. Said he: "This is a great step forward in securing uniform divorce laws for the country...
...Force Meteorological Training Program, with far less stringent mathematics requirements than were previously required and a probable commission, will be explained in the Lowell House Junior common Room Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock by Professor Sarrel E. Gleason '27, Consultant to the Army Air Forces...
Annoyed most was the London Sunday Dispatch's irascible, Hearst-like Don Iddon. He fired a transatlantic cable: "This is a protest. . . . The American censorship is tough and hard and very stringent. . . . We are all worried. . . . Last week I had seven dispatches either suppressed in their entirety or so badly mauled . . . they were ruined...
Before a hornet-mad Senate Agricultural Committee he stood by Leon Henderson, who thinks he has found a way to outwit the farm bloc. The way: 1) let farmers sell their loan wheat for what it will fetch in the market; 2) maintain such stringent retail ceilings on flour, for example, that the price of wheat will have to yield. These tricks neatly bypassed the parity-or-bust provisions farm-bloc Senators had carefully woven into the anti-inflation...