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...citizens accustomed to peacetime defense budgets, these sums read like full-dress Rearmament. Fact was that for the Army-which needed and got most of the emergency funds-it was only partial rearmament and on a 1938 scale. If the U. S. thought it could arm itself against these times at such small cost, or that its present military establishment could digest even such comparatively small sums, it still had another illusion to meet and overcome. Aircraft excepted, about all the Franklin Roosevelt's initial estimates could do was provide what the Army thought it needed before Hitler...
Swiss Blitz? The Swiss had good reason to believe the next blow was soon coming their way. The Army passed from partial to full mobilization, 600,000 troops. Many Swiss mechanized units which had been massed on the frontiers were moved to central Switzerland to attack any large Nazi sky units which might land. With every Swiss male between 20 and 60 mobilized, the Government gave rifles and 40 cartridges each to striplings, oldsters and women, with instructions to shoot the 'chuters. Hastily Swiss banks and insurance companies dumped the last of their securities into fleets of trucks which...
...full page questionnaire prepared by the Committee asks: (1) "If a saving of $.50 per week per person were made possible by the partial replacement of waitresses by student waiters, would you favor such a change?" and (2) "If it is found that no immediate saving can be effected by the employment of student waiters in the Houses, would you, nevertheless, be in favor of their employment...
...been further alleged in letters of graduates that a partial cause of the change is Dean Hudunt's desire to oust Professor Hubbard, current head of the department...
...partial answer to the question "Why smash atoms?" is obvious from this fact. Radium has long been used in the treatment of cancerous diseases, its chief disadvantage being its often prohibitive expense. The cyclotron can make a simple substance radio-active at comparatively small cost...