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...journalism graduate of Northwestern University, got his first newspaper job in the New East in 1935 just after Il Duce's grab at Ethiopia. TIME's Foreign News editor found him there in 1938, when he already had a reputation as one of the best informed newspapermen in the area. Zinder has been working for TIME ever since, digging out the news for us in the deserts of Arabia and the ports of Syria, in Cyprus, Trans-Jordania, Palestine, Turkey, Irak, Iran, Egypt, and now Libya...
...Without waiting for passage of the Bone bill, enabling him to seize foreign patents (TIME, April 27), the President directed Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley to grab all enemy-owned or controlled patents, of which there are more than 25,000. He also announced that this time, under some not-yet-defined powers, they would not be returned to their former owners after...
...room, saying "I refuse to be called un-American ! " But no voice was raised against the bill which these doings were designed to promote. S. 2303, sponsored by Senators Bone (Chairman of the Patents Commit tee), O'Mahoney and La Follette, gives the President power to grab any patent needed for war or national defense, to license it to anyone he cares to for as long as he deems necessary, for payment of a "reasonable royalty fee." One section of S. 2303 looked to nervous anti-New Deal ers like a New Deal foot in the post-war door...
...rigged a piece of canvas across the center of the boat, against the breaking waves. In the darkness Dr. Conly fumbled with the meager equipment of the lifeboat's first-aid kit-hemostats, scissors, gauze, iodine, aspirin, all drenched in salt water. He had had no chance to grab his instruments before his ship went down...
Thus smart Packard jumped the gun on other automen, got U.S. Navy orders for marine engines back in 1939, British orders for Rolls-Royce aircraft engines a year later. Soon other independents were in the grab bag too. Nash now makes airplane propellers and engine parts, will soon turn out giant flying boats way down in New Orleans; Hudson, new Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns and Naval ordnance goods; Studebaker, trucks and aircraft engines; Willys, jeeps and other items. The independents have more than $1,000,000,000 in war orders...