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Boarding the Normandie at Southampton one day last week, President Floyd Bostwick Odium of Atlas Corp. dispatched to his office in Manhattan a radiogram as crisp as his sandy hair. Read the message: "Closed deal 30 minutes before departure...
...already on the move northward & southward to greener fields. Last month it swung up along the high edge of the Great Plains to the wheat regions of the Dakotas. By last week, after 32 blistering days without a drop of rain, fields in that area yielded nothing but crisp brown stubble. At Mitchell, S. Dak. 11,000 citizens knelt to the tolling of bells in the town's 13 churches one morning last week, devoutly prayed for rain, got none. Instead Dakotans were promised this week a visit from a scouting party of top-flight New Dealers headed...
...Cheered announcements by His Majesty's Government in a crisp White Paper that for the next ten years sponsored programs and radio advertising will continue to be banned from all broadcasting stations in Great Britain...
...Scutari, Flo and her charges sweep the dirty corridors, poison the rats, reduce the death rate from 42% to 2%. Ably publicized by the London Times correspondent (Ian Hunter), their efforts infuriate the chief physician (Donald Crisp) who considers female nursing a sin & a shame. Flo goes to the front hospital at Balaklava, catches cholera, gets back to Scutari to find most of her good work undone. She does it over again, returns to London, gets from Queen Victoria a brooch and the recognition which has been her aim: that women are worthy to be wartime nurses and that nursing...
There is the same fiat austerity of modeling in the face, the same crisp brilliance in hair and the suggestion of light on the pupils...