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...minor outbreak of infantile paralysis (in Arkansas) may demonstrate something that doctors and parents everywhere very much want to know-how well the Kenny treatment of poliomyelitis works out in an epidemic. To Little Rock, where 25 children were down with polio, rushed a group of physiotherapists and nurses to whom the Australian nurse has been teaching her revolutionary exercise treatment (TIME, June 23, Dec. 15, 1941) in the Minneapolis General Hospital...
With what he had, Chennault accomplished wonders comparable to his work with the A.V.G., a few of whose members stayed on to show youngsters of the U.S. Army the know-how of China flying...
Each sport has its relevance to war: the body contact of boxing and football, the sustained muscular strain of wrestling, the teamwork of basketball and soccer, the know-how of tumbling, the muscle-building of labor. But the sports considered most valuable for Navy fledglings are swimming, track and hand-to-hand...
Drafted, willingly, into political life at 46, Captain Lyttelton was first Metals Controller, moved through chairmanship of the Board of Trade to Production Minister. Because Britain needed men of ability and know-how, he was talked of as a progressive Tory candidate for Prime Minister. He spoke progressively, acted like a hard hitter. But last week Lyttelton's career was stalling. He had not yet shown those qualities-whatever they are-that make an Englishman love a Tory...
...many little businesses will never land a war contract, for neither their equipment nor their labor nor their technical know-how is adaptable to war work...