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...Washington estimate that the new economic policy would depress the British standard of living by 4%, a harassed Labor policymaker last week made a grim and exaggerated rejoinder: "Four percent! If only it were 4%-it would be paradise. The ghastly truth is that Washington would be nearer the mark if it said...
...prayers of millions for cortisone...Strophanthus sarmentosus is a potentially unlimited source of the raw material for cortisone." This material, he said, is "more closely related to cortisone than ox bile acid, and will therefore require many fewer steps in its chemical conversion...It is 17 steps nearer to cortisone than bile acid...
...roughly parallel to Route 20 from Worcester to the Connecticut line and to Route 110 from Salisbury to Worcester, the new road would have frequent cut-outs, none of which would stop traffic. Boston to New York travel would be considerably expedited even though the highway would come little nearer to Boston than Worcester; most autoists who drive to New York regularly agree that the slowest part of the trip is along Routes 15 and 20 from the Worcester Turnpike to the Connecticut line...
...United States" would have been able to fly planes off, but not retrieve them; it would simply have been a mobile airport for bringing planes nearer, but not very significantly nearer, the inland targets of strategic bombing. And it would have been a very expensive airport to lose. The odds are good that the Navy "Banshee" fighters are going to give the B-36 a fine fight, but equally good that the "United States" and the Navy's abortive entry into strategic bombing have been finally washed...
Within this belt ranged Nationalist demolition teams, blowing all bridges that might be used by enemy vehicles. Long columns of weary, bedraggled infantrymen plodded back from the front to take up new positions nearer the city. A young captain in tennis shoes, a grimy sweat rag at his waist, said nervously: "Kung-fei hen li hai [the Communist bandits are very fierce]." In a day-long battle to the northwest, his regiment had lost a third of its men. The captain crouched, swung his silver-knobbed cane in imitation of a Tommy gun. "They came from all sides," he said...