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...other sources for governmental economy would be a tedious task of investigating each of the Departments and Agencies in order to see whether they could save a couple of bucks by rebending unbent paper clips. Such an investigation would probably cost as much as could be saved, and would absorb valuable time and effort in charge and counter-charge inside the sweltering committee rooms...
...must not absorb your space to handle the interpretation that "the Emperor might well emerge himself as a wise and statesman-like ruler," other than to express regret that a man whom I admire for years of factual reporting has joined the ranks of others who feel we could use the Emperor as a guidepost, that we must not broadcast anything overseas which would offend the son of heaven, and that we must renounce a military governorship or invasion of Japan. This unfortunate position ranks with the belief that Korea should be left to Japan as a mandate! This reflects...
...bigger concentrated campaigns at two-month intervals. Securities sold in the $9 billion issue will be tailored to every type of investor. Commercial banks, investment houses and dealers will be organized into selling teams, and commercial banks have been warned that the amount of securities they will have to absorb depends directly on the success of the public campaign...
...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 of other nations. Said Dr. Hugh Cabot, famed Boston surgeon, recently...
...Orchestra will absorb about 30 girls, mostly of the string-playing species, thus bolstering the draft-depleted personnel of that organization. "Bigger and better things are hoped for next year," said Jaffe, whose increasingly Radcliffe minded orchestra began its rehearsals last night...