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...careful surgeon would no more neglect to drain off escaped blood while operating in the peritoneal cavity than he would operate with unsterilized instruments. He believes that drainage helps keep the cavity clean, lessens risk of peritonitis. But peritonitis often develops after "dry" operations nevertheless...
...Mortimer Skinner, always insisted that the company buy back its stock when holders retired or died, then redistribute it as a bonus to younger men. For this purpose Philco paid life-insurance premiums on its big stockholders amounting to upwards of $100,000 a year. This was a steady drain on company cash. Meantime stockholders, however loyal, sometimes wanted cash, a market. Last week 26 of the largest put up 175,000 shares (20% of their holdings), Philco put up 150,000, the public was told to come and get it at $15 a share...
...Italy drew heavily on the U. S. for copper (up 45% for the first six months of the war) and scrap iron. But her purchases of oil were another matter. Allied optimists have counted on Italy's being short of oil, hoped she would prove a drain on Germany if she joined up. In 1938 Italy bought 6,750,552 bbl. of U. S. crude; in 1939, 4,984,809. But in the first four months of 1940 her imports slacked off to 1,330,140 bbl., a rate of less than 4,000,000 bbl. a year. Nevertheless...
Slow as U. S. air lines have been to go after the Loening plan, many an airline executive could see a lot of future sense in it last week as the U. S. started working toward a warplane production of 50,000 annually. For when the drain of war production is over, many a factory will desperately need a new market for ships. Air-express planes may be an answer...
...these millions will ever be necessary. Most of them would, in any case, be better employed in our own aircraft and ammunition factories. Of course we should be obliged to expend some of our 'wealth and resources' but I do not think that they would be "poured down the drain" if used in the defence of our liberty and our civilization. Furthermore even if we follow your advice and refrain from any intervention we would be faced, in the event of a German victory, with the necessity of expending a large amount of our "wealth and resources". We would have...