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...fantastic" expenditure of $97 billion for war in the 1943-44 fiscal year still stands. The Army budget is to be revised downward by $6 billion; the Navy pro gram revised upward by $4 billion. The remaining $2 billion will be absorbed by merchant shipping and other war goods...
...Lady Haw-Haw who broadcasts in Eng lish on Radio Tokyo. One U.S. sub crew which had just sunk two Jap transports' liked her pro gram the night they left for home. Said Tokyo Rose:"You build 'em, we sink...
...Washington correspondent for five Maine newspapers (Portland's Press-Herald, Evening Express and Sunday Tele gram, Augusta's Kennebec Journal, Waterville's Sentinel, all published by Guy P. Gannett) May Craig keeps Mainers so well posted on national affairs that newsmen nave quipped: "As May goes, so goes Maine." This is somewhat exaggerated. No Down Easter herself (she was born in North Carolina, spent most of her life in Washington), May Craig is likewise no Republican. She describes herself as "about 75% New Dealer." But her Maine readers are fond...
Fourth largest user of radium is the research physicist, and most of the world's radium outside hospitals is to be found in university and other research laboratories. Radium lasts a long time: one gram will be half a gram in 1,580 years...
There are possibly three pounds of radium in the world, but accurate figures on anything to do with radium are hard to extract from the few men who control its production and sale. The price of radium has fallen from $125,000 a gram to $25,000-in terms of an ounce, a decline from $3,500,000 to $708,750. The price fell first when the carnotite mines of Colorado and again when the Belgian Congo ceased to be the only profitable sources of radium. The third break in price occurred soon after the discovery...