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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needed, 508 have been trained. Under the new plan, training centers will be expanded to seven. Legionnaires will be selected to attend and establish State schools until each State has at least one. It will be up to the Legion to finance the State schools, add other training centers at all of the Legion's 11,780 posts...
...add to its other inoculations,* the entire U. S. Army is to be vaccinated against yellow fever. Secretary Stimson gave the order last week. The vaccine, developed in 1936 by the Rockefeller Foundation, is made from yellow-fever virus grown on chick embryos. One dose immunizes against the deadly, mosquito-borne disease for at least two to three years...
...railroaders this week waited for ICC to grant them a boost in freight rates. They did not expect the full 10% increase they had asked (TIME, Dec. 22), but they did expect around 6-7½%. That would add some $275,000,000 to their 1942 revenues, atop the $45,000,000 passenger-rate increase granted last month...
...campaign to add iron and vitamins to white bread has bogged down. So declared Dr. William Henry Sebrell Jr., famed nutritionist of the U.S. Public Health Service, last week. Year ago, most U.S. bakers agreed to enrich their white bread with: i) thiamin (the "morale vitamin" B 1 ; 2) nicotinic acid (to prevent pellagra); 3) iron. Although enrichment accounts for only 3% of baking costs, less than a third of U.S. bread is now vitaminized. Reason: public apathy, bakers' indifference. One large baking company in Washington, D.C., among the first to fortify its flour, has now gone back...
Without poaching on melodrama, Director Richard Thorpe manages to add triumphant suspense to his mauled hero's removal from the torture hideout by having him, though blindfolded, scratch the door jamb in departing, count the steps going down to the car, recall the turns, a dip in the pavement, a stop-&-go signal, the sound of a calliope, etc. All these well-noted clues come home to roost when he goes over the ground a second time...