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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meat rationing was originally imposed not to solve a Dominion shortage but to get meat for shipment to Britain (675,000,000 Ib. of Canadian pork went to Britain last year). True, said the Wartime Prices & Trade Board, there are now great surpluses, but they are due largely to a current and presumably temporary lack of ships in which to get meat overseas. Since Britain's needs are still great, Britain will get the surpluses-sooner or later. When Britain's meat needs decline, Canadian rationing will be eased or abandoned. But not until then...
...pushed through to his Hoh River valley farm, "the Iron Man of the Hoh" packed all his supplies 20 miles by canoe or on his back. When trail crews first hacked into the fastness of Washington's Olympic Mountains, Huelsdonk earned double pay by carrying double loads-200 Ib...
Behncke protests that cramming 1,000 Ib. of added payload into commercial planes, most of which are five or six years old, would be highly risky for pilots and passengers. CAB engineers have made exhaustive test flights in DC-3s loaded to the higher weight limits, and the Air Transport Command calmly loads its DC-35 up to 29,000 Ib. for military flights. But Dave Behncke is unconvinced. "What I'm thinking of," he argues, "is the cushion of safety which the pilot must have to land safely if something goes wrong while in flight, and that cushion...
...added 1,000 Ib. per plane would not solve the airlines' wartime traffic problem. Only more planes can do that. But the Behncke-CAB row marks a milestone in air transport labor relations. Ever since 1934, when Behncke was an airmail pilot on the Chicago-Omaha run and was forced by bad weather to pancake his plane into a treetop, he has doggedly campaigned for greater safety in flying. Unhurt in the crash, he toppled ignobly to the ground while getting out of his wrecked ship, broke his leg, quit flying. Since its beginning in 1931 he has headed...
...alkali. Last week's real news was that Dr. F. Ronald Edwards of the University of Liverpool has figured out a way to purify it with heat. If one of these methods can be used for mass production, the plasma supply will be almost limitless-a 1,000-Ib. steer is 7% blood...