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...possibility of a bigger influenza epidemic than the U.S. has had in 20 years was forecast by public health doctors at a meeting in Atlantic City. Reasons: 1) the nation has been steadily losing the partial immunity it got from the flu scourges of World War I; 2) the virus that caused mild regional epidemics last year has probably been growing in strength; 3) once more hordes of men are crowded in Army camps...
...sell her entire exportable beef surplus (500,000 tons) to Great Britain. Added to other heavy British purchases, that meant another sizable chunk of sterling credits frozen in London. When these are thawed by peace, Argentina undoubtedly will do her shopping in Europe. Supporting reasons: lower costs, better terms, partial European control of normal Argentine trade...
When the U.S. Navy Department eased its censorship on British vessels calling at U.S. ports for repairs (TIME, Sept. 29), it also released a partial list of those which had. The partial list was as meaningless as first returns in an election. But last week the Navy supplemented the list, and the ships which it said were, or had been, in U.S. ports comprised a whole navy in themselves-big enough to give the entire Italian Navy a run for its trembling life. The list...
Wallace Beery as "Barnacle Bill" provides a partial antidote to the lethal sweetness of "Blossoms in the Dust." Playing a loafing fisherman whose dreams of the South Seas and native women and wine and native women and bananas and native women and rest are shattered by a local woman, bleary Beery does an excellent job in the kind of role for which nature intended him. Leo Carillo is also excellent and Marjorie Main--well we won't be unkind--we'll just say she stinks...
...person first to submit the correct solution within 15 days--before September 28, 1941,--the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) will be paid: and a partial solution within the amount of 25,000 of the correct solution, fifty dollars ($50.00): within the amount of 50,000, twenty-five dollars ($25.00); within the amount of 75,000, fifteen dollars ($15.00); within the amount of 150.000 ten dollars ($10.00); within the amount of 500,000, five dollars ($5.00); and within the amount of 1,000,000, one dollar ($1.00): meaning that the partial solutions may be the above amounts, respectively, over...