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...election was over and the U.S. was attacking in Africa, were in no mood to listen. After the die-hards had their say, the Senate quickly passed the bill without any strings. On its first important measure since the elections, Congress had acted with statesmanlike rapidity-and a political threat to the war's prosecution was a threat no longer...
...FrontLine Girl Friends." Gravest menace to the wounded soldier is not his wound itself but the triple threat of shock, infection and delay-each of which once killed more men than flying bits of metal. In Russia, as elsewhere, plasma transfusions have reduced effects of shock, which is essentially a disorder of the blood stream (the body tissues seem to absorb the blood's natural plasma). Sulfa drugs and tetanus serum have reduced danger of infections. In use of antitoxin for gas gangrene-the bacterial infection that causes a wound to froth-Russia claims to be well ahead...
...more & more to murder in order to get their way. Byas describes in wonderful detail the killing of Major General Tetsuzan Nagata in the War Office in 1935, and the brutal February Revolt in 1936 which grew out of the Nagata trial. This program of crime was rewarding. The threat of assassination could be as effective as assassination. In the end, the military became Japan's collective Führer...
...time. Stalin soon decided, says Author Scott, that he could get more from Germany than from Britain-an interlude of peace and, incidentally, half of Poland, the Baltic states, Finland. Hitler was ready to concede the territorial pawns in the game, if he could neutralize temporarily the Russian military threat and get Russian raw materials...
...backfield the all-House team has a couple of triple threat men in Dick Chenoweth of Eliot and Frank Gillis of Leverett. Chenoweth's passing and running were the largest factors in the Eliot offense that came to life in their three game winning streak...