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Meanwhile, the near-record killings of beef and lamb have turned a meat shortage into a temporary surplus. Last week cold-storage warehouses from coast to coast were jammed with more meat than in any December during the past five years, while farmers still hold enough hogs and cattle to keep packers working at full speed through January...
...Nearly half of Clifford Johnson's body had third-degree burns. He lay on his belly for months, shrank from 168 to 112 lb.; two months after the fire he was all but dead. Doctors treated his burns with triple aniline dyes; they dosed him with sulfonamides, given internally, to control infection; they gave him a near-record number of 100 transfusions, half plasma and half whole blood...
...enough to label the P-38 another "best in the world," proved the versatility of a plane that was once the dog of the Air Forces. It is almost four years since Army Test Pilot Lieut. Ben Kelsey flew the first P-38 across the continent in a near-record 7¾ hours' flying time, only to crash when one of the plane's engines conked out at Mitchel Field, N.Y. Before pilots learned to bail out by diving the plane and somersaulting forward, some had their legs sliced off by the P-38's tailpiece when...
...factories produced at a near-record rate in the Sept. 12 week and TIME'S Index stood at 182.3 (estimated), only one-fifth of a point below the all time record...
...announced last week by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad: $22,073,408. The sum represented six months' to three years' back interest on nine bond issues owned by some 70,000 B. & O. bondholders. B. & O. was able to fork out the cash because of last year's near-record traffic, which produced $51,442,000 of revenues available for interest...