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Thus, literally out of thin air, the turbosupercharger emerged last week as a menace to Hitler's power. It emerged, too, from 22 years of dusty neglect as a belated triumph for its inventor, Dr. Sanford Alexander Moss, 68, who developed the turbo long ago to help beat the Kaiser. As flyers in World War I reached for higher & higher altitudes, they found their engines losing power dangerously. Reason: atmospheric oxygen is as vital an aviation fuel as gasoline. At 20,000 feet, air is only half as dense as at sea level, at 35,000 feet one-fourth...
Many of the diseases discussed by the doctors in the conference come from poor diet, bad housing, lack of medical care. Rheumatic heart disease and tuberculosis, for example, are most prevalent in slums. Teeth may be weakened by a deficiency of minerals and vitamins, years of neglect. The majority of men rejected by the Army have not been under the care of a physician. Free medical care is almost unobtainable in many small towns and rural communities. Even in New York City there are few free clinics for dental care...
Patrioteers were outraged nevertheless. Jumping up at a Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting, an ex-Tammany judge named Alfred J. Talley demanded that New York City parents "stamp out this slimy enemy" and oust members of the Board of Higher Education (which runs the public colleges) for "neglect of duty." The Taxpayers Union's President Joseph Goldsmith demanded that City College be closed until "every un-American professor and student is removed...
Adolf Hitler was moving fast to consolidate Europe for his grand offensive. But he did not neglect the rest of the world. In Tokyo Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka packed to go to Berlin by way of Moscow, preceded by Germany's Ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott. On this trip Japan's part, if any, in the offensive will be settled. And so, perhaps, will the long-awaited Japanese-Russian non-aggression pact, which to Japan would mean Southward...
...letter received by the CRIMSON and Dean Hanford. Miss Winthrop points out that neglect of the bureaus during the year forces them to earn their "total yearly income within a very short period of time...