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With Navy expansion galloping full speed, there is hope of an air force of 17,000 pilots to fly the contemplated 15,-ooo planes. This schedule means a vast increase over the 473 turned out last year, the 6,720 expected this year. Already the elimination classes are being hiked from 40 to 100 a month. Before the first month is over, perhaps 20% will be washed out as unsuitable for further training...
Today Bellevue is a $23,000,000 plant, a group of 17 buildings, staffed by 231 interns and resident physicians, 660 visiting doctors, 543 student nurses, 980 graduate nurses. It costs the city some $5,000,-ooo a year. In 1939 there were 68,485 admissions; 14,092 operations; 29,106 ambulance calls (only cops can summon Bellevue ambulances); 640,012 laboratory reports; 268,000 prescriptions. The hospital's daily population varies from...
...where he was a high scholarship man and president of his class, two years ago was president of the Iowa Alumni Association. He also went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, got an M.A. there. No educator, he gave up a better-paid law practice to take the $12,-ooo presidency, was chosen to give Iowa an efficient business administration...
...later, after his baying had successfully reminded every baseball fan that "Ol' Dizz"; was still in the game, Loudspeaker Dean characteristically signed his contract. Last week, proving as useful to the Cubs as a wet firecracker, the celebrated fireball who had been purchased two years ago for $185,-ooo cash (and three able-bodied players) was bunted back to the minors, his arm crippled...
...Canada's failure to give her destiny a rush, MacCormac finds other reasons in the old-fashioned solidarity of her 3,500,-ooo French-speaking people, the magnet of her powerful neighbor (10% of Canadian university graduates make their living in the U. S.). For her greatest domestic problem, the French minority, he sees a solution in the close union of England and France officially announced as a war aim and whichever way the war breaks, John MacCormac believes Canada is on her way to becoming a first-class power-either as the refuge of a beaten Britain...