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Belt of Kindness. Behind Tiny Montgomery and Susan Tate stands an organization that has put a belt of mercy around the world. In the last three years the Red Cross has distributed $63,000,000 worth of supplies in war-torn countries. To Great Britain have gone: hospital equipment, medical and surgical supplies, clothing for civilians bombed out of their homes; to Russia: bandages, anti-gangrene serum, insulin; to China: quinine, vitamin tablets, cracked wheat; to France: clothing, flour, chocolate...
...more profitable-business. Both companies have important technological improvements which they have been slow to push, pending a settlement of their competitive (and labor) problems. Meanwhile the release of some of the two companies' duplicating equipment could advance the war effort. If all their parallel wires were torn down, for example, it might release as much as 10,000 tons of badly needed copper...
Riches to Rags. In San Diego, Patrolman Alvin Becker stopped a speeding motorist, refused a one-dollar bribe, handed a ticket to the enraged driver, who vented his vexation by tearing the thing into shreds, shortly found he had torn up the dollar...
...nation's capital was caught up in the most bitter snarls and personal feuds of World War II. In the headlines of the newspapers and on the lips of Congressmen and administrators the dominant words of the week were "fight" and "revolt." The quarrel which had torn WPB apart was merely waiting for the next flare-up; Franklin Roosevelt was faced with Congressional revolt and a possible split in his own Democratic Party...
...torn pages from the diary of the famed Chicago-born Paris dress designer Mainbocher, whose salon is now located on Manhattan's 57th Street, were published last week in the New York Herald Tribune. Excerpts...