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...primary contests, watching for a bona fide expression of popular sentiment. This gives states like New Hampshire a wholly disproportionate influence on the presidential choice. Wendell Willkie, for example, was out of the running for the Republican nomination after the Wisconsin primary in 1944. Oregon voters applied the same deathblow to Harold Stassen in 1948. These men might have been the real choice of the nation's Republicans, but Wisconsin and Oregon dissented, and the rest of the nation was electorally speechless. It may be that the country folk of New Hampshire will do likewise to Dwight Eisenhower...
Balm for Dow. To Dow Chemical (only prewar U.S. magnesium manufacturer) the mild praise was sweet. But even sweeter to the company's white-haired president, Dr. Willard H. Dow, was the deathblow the Committee gave to the popular belief that the U.S. magnesium shortage was due to an agreement between Dow, Alcoa and Germany's I.G. Farben. Under that deal-so the libelous rumor ran-Dow magnesium manufacture was limited, while German production was kited. Other agreements brought antitrust indictments down on the heads of Dow and Alcoa in 1941, forced them...
...applause in Manhattan last week, when he suggested that OPA place a moratorium on meat rationing for the two holiday weeks. His argument: if the beef and pork products were not moved quickly, they would spoil since there is no storage space. Further, such action might strike "a deathblow at the black market." Other food dealers suggested that WFA release part of its gigantic 433 million Ib. of frozen fruits, 1.7 million cases of eggs, 176 million lb. of butter. This would ease the storage problem for meat...
...just on the point of breaking away for good, the resigned example and advice of his Aunt Clara send him back to harness. His last (and unconventional) act is to go down one of his mines to help rescue some trapped miners. The effort gives him his deathblow; he dies hoping unspoken better things for his 20th-Century...
...Mass-hatred, doctrines of race-superiority, conflicts of color and religion are prevalent in the world today. And the last world struggle was a war to end war! Nations are now racing madly for the next war. It will mean the deathblow for Western civilization. Yet the trained intelligence of scientists has been devoted these last few years to the discovery of the best means of wholesale slaughter. Poison gas has been so perfected by their work that its use in the next war will mean racial murder. Cities will be blotted out as trenches were...