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...meningitis (symptoms: stiff neck, headache, delirium, partial deafness and blindness, a rash) hits hardest in concentrations of young men, the Army is on the watch. At a California ordnance depot, three soldiers died almost before their trouble could be diagnosed. The doctors were waiting for the next 17 cases with sulfadiazine, saved them all. They made throat cultures of men in the barracks involved, dosed all who harbored the bacteria. Said a medical officer: "If you catch it early, it's a bad cold...
...Annapolis graduate. Lt. Comdr. Collins, also a graduate of the Harvard Business School, has seen service in many waters including disbursing duty aboard the USS Nevada and with destroyer divisions afloat. Other tours of duty included the Naval Air Station at Cocosolo, Canal Zone, the Naval Supply depot at San Diego and as Supply Officer on the USS Savannah
...soldiers have been knocked out. The Japs still have almost 3,500,000-about 750,000 in Manchukuo, 800,000 in China, perhaps 100,000 in Indo-China, Malaya and Thailand, more than 75,000 in Burma, perhaps 90,000 in the southern islands, and all the rest in "depot" divisions in Formosa and Japan...
...Rogers, insists on calling them "Darling" on the telephone. But last week Hayward was also going places in aviation-he was a promoter, manager and part owner of Southwest Airways, a husky, 2 7-month-old enterprise in Phoenix, Ariz, which operates four big pilot-training centers, an overhaul depot for training planes and an air cargo line...
...miles east of Phoenix. This succeeded right off the bat -Southwest was on its way. To handle the Army's stepped-up pilot program Hayward expanded the original civilian school and built Thunderbird Field II. To overhaul training planes and engines he set up a big repair depot. To haul high-priority military cargo he started an airline over a censored Pacific Coast route. Meanwhile Southwest trained thousands of pilots (27 nationalities but mostly U.S., British and Chinese), expanded its staff time & again...