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...prevented Japanese from immigrating must somehow be superior. Last week's abandonment of reverence for the U. S., and the intensification of the pressure on Britain and France, were direct results not only of Axis successes in Europe, but also of a trend in Japan. The country was hellbent, with a flag in one hand and a rifle in the other, for total government, total economics, total war, total politics, total everything...
...House of Assembly that his Government's policy would "continue as if no war were being waged" he found that he had guessed wrong. Out he went, in went General Smuts. For by another unenthusiastic Assembly vote (80-to-66) the Union scrambled on the Empire war-wagon, hellbent for the precipice...
Surgery. Americans, says Dr. Bernheim, are "hellbent for surgery" because it is dramatic and thorough. Although there are hundreds of outstanding surgeons who never rush into an operation, "too much surgery is done." Reason: Surgery "is easy money-it comes quick and there's lots of it." While family physicians, who suggest operations, are paid very small fees, "the surgeon is the big shot-and big shots cop the coin." Too often the only money a physician gets from an operation is an unethical "cut" the surgeon hands him for bringing in a patient (fee-splitting...
Other portents: Settlement of the TVA fight (TIME, Feb. 13) apparently cleared the decks for utility modernization, and last week another major purchaser of producer goods-the railroads-seemed hellbent on a spending spree. Union Pacific announced a $15,000,000 expansion program-new rails, box cars, locomotives and remodeled coaches. Missouri Pacific ordered $1,500,000 worth of rails. All told, railway-equipment manufacturers said that already this year they had received orders for 375,000 tons of rails, only 25,000 tons less than 1938's total orders...
...Irish Free State and Czechoslovakia, with two finalists each, a theoretical edge over Sweden and Canada which had only one. A team with two men in the finals could send one careful jumper around the course for a faultless record, and let his comrade on a fast mount go hellbent for speed with a prayer that he would not make too many faults. For the Irish Free State that strategy worked to perfection. Canada had led off with a faultless round in 47⅔ sec., which Sweden beat by three seconds. Then out rode Ireland's Capt. Frederick...