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Hooton on Jews. Harvard's Professor Earnest Albert Hooton is a popeyed, witty anthropologist who is noted for his pessimistic views on the state of mankind in general. Last week Anthropologist Hooton, no Jew, published in Collier's as outspoken and provocative an article on the Jewish question as the U. S. press has printed in many...
...could get all of the Jews in this country and Europe to outmarry, it would leaven the lump of Gentile stupidity. There is enough ability concentrated in the few millions of Jews to raise the general average considerably if it were disseminated by intermixture. ... I do not know that they would be willing to do it, but, if they did, they would confer a great genetic boon upon mankind, and at the same time would solve their own problems...
South of Labrador the going got tough. Great clouds stacked up along the course with their bases almost on the water. Hardbitten Vladimir Kokkinaki, Brigadier-General of the Russian Air Force, Hero of the Soviet Union, went on instruments. Higher and higher he climbed his red two-motored bomber, of a type used by Russians fighting for Loyalist Spain. Dirty grey mist still dripped dismally off wing and windshield. Nineteen hours out of Moscow, with all the Atlantic behind him, he was tired. But New York City, his destination, was only five hours' flight ahead...
Alongside the Indianapolis motor speedway is the most secretive aircraft engine plant in the U. S., the Allison Engineering Co. factory, wholly owned by General Motors. There the sleek 1,200-h.p. motors that power the Army's fastest ships are built. Because the Air Corps takes the entire output of the plant, uses them to power speedy Lockheed, Bell and Curtiss pursuit ships and Bell cannon-carrying fighters (see p. 15), every Allison is a Prestone-cooled secret...
Cheerful were most first quarter earning reports sent last week to stockholders. For 188 large industrials, profits were up 110% over the first quarter of 1938, for General Motors and Chrysler profits were up about 600%. But businessmen, like baseball fans, no longer care who won the last World Series. They are already figuring on second quarter earnings...