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...there were a champion U.S. blood donor, a Pittsburgh truck driver, Russell O. Armour, would appear to be it. Last week he gave his 41st pint in 42 months. Sometimes he has had to use fictitious names, since the Red Cross will not knowingly take blood from anyone oftener than once every two months. Armour has altogether been drained of about three times as much blood as he has in his body at any one time. His weight has stayed the same: around...
...spies out of the capital. The Government had limited Axis diplomatic-code cables to 100 words a day, and the Argentine press played up testimony on the activities of the spy ring which left no doubt in the minds of Argentines. The well documented memoranda of U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour (TIME, Nov. 16) seemed to have been taken seriously and in good faith...
Meanwhile a flock of knotty problems were whirling about OPA offices, keeping the enforcement staff in a tizzy. Swift's price ceiling for beef turned out to be 21½ ? a pound; Wilson's, 21?; Armour's, 20½ ?. Obviously such a disparity could not last long, for no butcher will go on indefinitely paying Swift 1? a pound more than Armour just because that differential happened to exist on the date meat prices were frozen last March...
...Foreign-Born. In the smelly pork-trimming room of Omaha's Armour plant, large, muscular women carve the slaughtered pigs with glistening ten-inch knives. They wear white uniforms, rubber aprons, and galoshes. Many are European-born, many have sons in the fighting forces. The plant is on a 24-hour basis, supplying meat to the United Nations' armies. When the war news is bad, they sometimes slash at the pigs as if they had Hitler himself in their grasp. Then production soars...
...rounds the caddies wore the players' numbers. Then Tam President George S. May insisted that no player could tee off for the third round without his number. Joe Kirkwood, famed trick-shot wizard who is accustomed to touring the world in regal style, angrily refused. So did Tommy Armour, onetime U.S. and British Open champion. Armour retired; Kirkwood was disqualified...