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More amateurish than British War Relief, Bundles for Britain is also more Social. It has taken in $1,654,000 in cash and material gifts (plus two live zebra finches, a carload of diapers, other miscellany). The output of its 700 chapters, 650,000 workers has been 900,000 knitted articles, 20,000 hospital garments. Besides clothing, it has gathered 350,000 surgical instruments, 58 mobile canteens, 22 ambulances, many other necessities. Last week Bundles adopted 19 London hospitals, promised them funds to repair fire-and-bomb damage...
None of the parts requires special machinery; even the bolts could be made in carload lots by any first-class machine shop. Blurted an Army sergeant who fired the gun, "Good God, it's so simple I could manufacture it myself." Harrington & Richardson bragged that it would produce 500 a day by next month, 1,000 a day by April. The U. S. Army made no commitments, but Army Ordnance predicted that the new gun "will play no small part in military events of the future...
...livestock from Florida already accounts for one-third of livestock revenue, could easily account for more. Since only about 40 new carloads of cattle to New York City (at A. C. L.'s $125 share per carload) would return the $5,000 development cost, it is hard to see how A. C. L.'s long-range promotion can lose...
...when challenged as to his right to vote, one of this group starts any trouble, a telephone call will soon bring a carload of huskies to restore order...
...still adventure he flew 100,000 miles, came to be called Hoover's "Eyes & Ears." His Irish temper made him the fighting man of the Hoover Cabinet. He got blamed (unjustly) for the Bonus Army casualties. As the Ickes of his day he took on Democrats by the carload...