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...Pentagon's first impulse was to throw the book at them. "A tempest in a teapot," snorted Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. But as the proportions of the trouble became apparent last week, Vandenberg flew out to Randolph for a first-hand checkup, ordered court martial proceedings dropped in the cases of two flyers...
...Checkup Below Ground. In the Southern Illinois fields, New Orient No. 2, operated by the Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co., was known as a safe mine. It had killed men in explosions before, but relatively small accidents, in the philosophy of the miner, are inevitable. It was modern, mechanized, efficient -and huge: the biggest shaft coal mine in the world. Its twelve miles of tunnels produced record yields of bituminous coal: 15,385 tons in one eight-hour shift...
...state mine inspector had finished a seven-day checkup of the whole mine only nine days before the blast. And at 6 o'clock, an hour and a half before the explosion, it had been checked again and pronounced free of gas. The 218-man night shift, the last miners scheduled to work before Christmas, had gone underground in high spirits. But somehow, the dangerous, odorless methane gas had collected. At 7:30, its explosion turned miles of tunnel into wreckage...
...some sort of priority system. The University already has several such systems in operation, but they are curiously unrealistic and contradictory. Scholarship holders are entitled to operations and ward space in Still-man or other hospitals without charge, while other students receive only fourteen days in Stillman and a checkup whenever they do not feel well. Furthermore, major sport athletes receive, free of charge, complete care for injuries sustained in the course of their manly pursuits, while only in special cases are minor sport athletes accorded such treatments and other athletes none...
...uncovered by the State Department's own loyalty investigation in 1946. George Shaw Wheeler was never in the State Department, but with the U.S. Military Government in Germany; he was denounced by Michigan's Representative George A. Dondero in 1947 and eased out while facing an Army checkup...