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Real news no longer flows out of Germany; it drips. Most correspondents have departed, and those who remain are fettered by ever-tightening censorship. Last week the drip of news became a trickle, perhaps the last in many a day. Home on the West Point were 118 U.S. diplomatic and consular officials, many of whom had been stationed in Germany until three weeks ago. Though closemouthed on orders of the State Department, they let fall these items of conditions inside Germany: ^ British bombing has been effective, not only in Hamburg but in Cologne. Thousands of women and children have been...
...City hospitals plan to treat early cases of syphilis with the five-day arsenic drip method (TIME, April 22, 1940). Since it seems that heavy doses of arsenic compound drain the body's supply of vitamin C, Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. has agreed to provide extra fruits and vegetables in an attempt to bolster up a number of reliefers with venereal infections...
...subway ride to the induction centre. Rockefeller squirmed, carefully refrained from giving any orders. Photographers went with him in the subway, shot pictures during the ride. When he got out, three newsreel trucks were waiting to catch him lugging his suitcase for the remaining three blocks. Sweat began to drip from his face, wilted his collar, stained his necktie...
Henry Reed of American Radiator and Charles Nolte of Crane (neither of whom got a drip of Mack's shower) knew exactly how it was done. By buying directly from manufacturers, Purchaser Mack had eliminated the wholesaler's commission. To the tradition-soaked leaders of an industry which believes in the sanctity of the wholesaler's discount and in the wholesaler's friend, the master plumber, as the only true outlet to the public, this was heresy. Adherents to The System, like Crane and American Radiator, call the renegades d-t-u's because they...
...this at a cost of one-tenth of a cent a day, pullets start laying Grade A hen's eggs before they are five months old. Wizard Oliver also sells worm casts for fertilizer, and a liquid nutrient (for flower growers) which is made by letting water drip through worm casts in boxes...