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...veterans' chief gripes are about the way the university has insisted on their following its regular routine. They feel they have learned a lot in the war. They want now to equip themselves as quickly as possible to earn a living. Required courses in such subjects as "Hygiene and Health," "Behavior of Modern Society," and "Principles of Learning" seem to them either old stuff or a waste of time...
...doctors in the U.S. armed forces. The Arctic paradoctors have already left the U.S. Since January, the remaining six, stationed at widely separated bases west of the Mississippi, have rescued 79 men-a good return for the $30,000 spent on their training and the $2,000 spent to equip each paradoctor...
...Italy, in good health and spirits, to re-equip myself and write my stories, after which I will go back to rejoin Tito. I was captured by Nazi paratroopers (see PRESS), lined up against a wall for execution, talked the Germans out of it, then escaped, covered 120 miles on foot, went through battles, passed twice through no man's land, was encircled once and broke through again. I believe I am the only Allied correspondent captured by and escaped from the Germans. Other stories will tell what I saw and heard among the Germans during my captivity, about...
Branch Out. He spread to small Blairsville (pop. 5,002), bought up the only industry in town-it was shut down -got the Navy to equip the plant, and began to turn out heavy-caliber shells. He kept on scouting U.S. industry for more bargains, bought the Quimby Pump Co., whose Newark and New Brunswick (N.J.) plants had a sizable backlog of Navy and Maritime Commission orders. To get further diversification he set up a new division of the Porter Co. and plunged into the gas & oil business. Although still on an experimental basis, he grossed a tidy...
...Much of Brazil's new industry will probably wilt when foreign manufactures re-enter the market. But Brazil is accumulating capital, machinery, know-how. Brazil's level of industrialization will probably remain well above what it was when the war began. Part of the money to equip her factories with the best foreign machinery will come from a steep excess-profits tax which may be avoided by putting twice the amount into government-issued "equipment certificates...