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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In the issue of TIME dated August 28, under the section concerning Business and Finance, I find as a part of your highly incandescent report on the affairs of the Chrysler Corp. the following statement: "Meanwhile, Chrysler common (currently selling under $80, paying at the rate of $8 a share), yields 10%." How nice. But in the course of my usual search in the back pages of the magazine for reading material among the advertisements, I come across the following notice: "The directors of Chrysler Corporation have declared a dividend of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per share...
...Franklin Roosevelt had just announced his decision not to furnish U. S. naval convoys to returning refugees (see p. 9) and John Kennedy was abruptly taken aback to find that this subject was passionately uppermost in his interviewers' minds...
...tank trap or tank obstruction was shelled, then rushed by light tanks and infantry. One after one they were destroyed, the beleaguered German advance squads often blowing them up before scuttling back to their heavy forts. Behind them they left land mines which, when the French artillery did not find them in time blew up the advancing tanks. Also encountered were robot machine guns, operated electrically by remote control. Swarming through the Warndt Forest between Saarbrücken and Saarlautern, the French found the woods "full of destruction and traps of all kinds." But by week's end that...
...this presses heavily on those whose occupations end with daylight and on those multitudes of elderly folk whose chief sorrow now is that age debars them from public service. . . . Lenitives are available and among the best of them is wisely chosen reading and rereading. . . . Some readers will find an inexhaustible solace in Sir Walter Scott; others will feel that Thackeray has for too long gathered dust upon their shelves. ... In the months to come many old favorites may be rehabilitated, and enthusiastic readers may rediscover or learn for the first time the magic of Tennyson, the robust courage of Browning...
...entering wounds may seem. If he meets an abdominal wound, for instance, he must first cut off all jagged infected surface tissue. Without damaging important nerves, veins, arteries, he must then pull out the intestines "foot by foot," looking for bullet perforations, and stitching them up. Although he may find as many as eight or ten perforations, the entire operation should not take more than 20 minutes. If he neglects the exploration, his patient is almost certain to die from hemorrhage or peritonitis. (Patients suffering from hemorrhage should have an H marked on their foreheads.to insure prompt treatment...