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...that peculiar name 24 years ago because no one knew what it meant and everyone wanted to know. Catering mainly to the steel industry, it now feeds 31,000 men daily at Carnegie-Illinois's Gary plant alone, concentrates on 25? carry-out lunches (spaghetti, macaroni, pork & beans, chop suey) because steel mills do not lend themselves to in-the-plant munching. It has had to turn down millions in new war business, already operates 80 branches chiefly in the Ohio-Illinois-Indiana steel belt and grosses $5,000,000-$6,000,000 a year...
...Schwartzkopf, who only last week broke Leslie MacMitchell's course record, ran a brilliant race to finish first and chop ten seconds from his previous record. Schwartzkopf's time of 26 minutes 7 seconds is especially good in view of the fact that Yale's five mile layout is one of the toughest in the country...
...October, we might storm the Continent and lose a couple of corps in doing it, but we would be there and we would push ahead. It might be a good idea to lose thousands and thousands, to martyr a per cent of our forces in order to chop a couple of years off the war. The casualties would be large but they would have to be suffered. . . . The martyr idea and the reduction of the war by two years might be a good plan, but remember I said it might...
...record peaks. Last year the company cleared $3,232,000 on sales of $31,565,000. Because the company is a prime Air Corps contractor, this year's figures are secret. One clue: because skyrocketing production has greatly reduced unit costs, the Army last March was able to chop $40,000,000 off the company's backlog by merely shaving prices...
...keep out of the army, conscripts have been known to chop off fingers, toes, hands, feet, have all their teeth pulled (suspicious examiners always check with the malingerer's dentist), puncture their eardrums, blind an eye with acids or alkalis, slash tendons, break bones in their arms and legs. Detection is often simple: a deliberate eardrum puncture, for example, will never occupy quite the same spot as one acquired from blast concussion...