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Vichy held up to the light last week one of the fruits of its collaboration with Germany, announced that Adolf Hitler had released one-fourth of his French war prisoners-500,000 men. It was plain that in choosing those to be freed Hitler had intended: 1) to help France grow strong again for New Order purposes; 2) to rid his prison camps of disabled prisoners who were a nuisance. Those released included medical-corps members, fathers who had four children when mobilized, some farm workers, veterans of World War I, members of families of those who had volunteered...
...Almost one-fourth of the men inducted into the Army need immediate dental care...
...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 as dense. Hence a 1,000-h.p. motor seven miles up will deliver only a puttering 250 h.p. without artificial respiration...
Skillful propaganda, coupled with this aid, makes capital of the Chaco's misery. And the misery is real. Presidencia Roque Saenz Pena has 4.000 people on relief at $1.50 per person per year. Cosecheros (Argentina's Okies) pour in to work in the fields, but less than one-fourth of them find work. Company-store prices are double to treble the prices at ordinary stores, and the cosecheros are paid in bonos, valid only at these stores...
...have to be poured into defense. In World War I, motor-makers remember they took much more than a 20% cut. All through 1918 they had trouble getting materials, and in the second half the War Industries Board made them hold production down to 423,800 cars, based on one-fourth of their 1,874,000 output for the twelve months of 1917. For 1919 they were warned that they might not be allowed to build any cars...