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Last April, with much hoopla, Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly gave the voters a preliminary peek at the new Chicago subway. Last week, six months later, the first "official" train went through. The longest-promised (50 years), costliest ($6,938,000 per mile), shortest (4.9 miles) subway in the world was now open for business...
...looking ahead for a year or so, fear a pinch sooner or later too. If they turn out to be right, the U.S. decision to upgrade the feeding habits of the world (from plain grain to grain converted to meat) will turn out to have been one of the costliest decisions of World...
Sweetness & Light. Embarking on The Three Sisters as a labor of love, its top-notch performers have accepted not only smaller roles than usual, but smaller salaries. (Yet the show, costing $12,000 a week, is Producer Cornell's costliest production.) The whole company have also displayed their very best company manners. Everyone is "thrilled" to be playing with everyone else. When Actress Gordon had a sore throat, Actress Anderson tore to the drugstore to get her a favorite remedy. For the Broadway run, the three great ladies are virtually pushing one another into the No. 1 dressing room...
...costliest American shortage in the Battle of Bataan was revealed last week: quinine (see p. 71). There was no more medicine to fight malaria, and in the long run malaria put more soldiers out of action than...
...these tightening defenses were apparently not enough. Wrote the Chinese best-selling Philosopher Lin Yutang: "From every corner of the earth, from Batavia, Melbourne, Chungking and even from London itself rises the cry 'Singapore must be held.' The loss of Singapore will be the costliest mistake of the whole war. If I could write words 30 feet high I would write these words: Singapore must be held...