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Selective Service's Lieut. Colonel H. Cliff Hatcher, who received Barbara's letter "for action," made prompt reply: "We have contacted the local board and advised them to delay the induction of your father until Monday, April 10, and we hope that you have a very happy Easter and your little sister will have a very happy birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War or No War | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...people of this country want only one new or different thing of their Government. That is truth-the kind of blunt, prompt, direct truth that shows that the Government has confidence in the people. The people will return that confidence in kind. There will be no strikes when the Government says "Don't" and means it. There will be no inflation, no griping at taxes, regardless of how high they are. There will be strong, confident faces where now you see only reflections of "what next?" Give us a Government that will say what it means and mean what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...influenza or epidemic meningitis) used to kill 92% to 100% of all cases. But Manhattan's Dr. Hattie Elizabeth Alexander loses only 25% of her patients. Dr. Alexander's lifesaving treatment consists of a special serum and sulfadiazine. Said she last week: "If treatment were always prompt, mortality could be brought near the zero mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meningitis Serum | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...Guarantee payment by the Government of not less than 90% of prime contractors' termination claims within 30 days, pending final settlement, and assure prompt payment of subcontractors' claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out from Under? | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...rubber program is butyl, the synthetic from which inner tubes were to come. Ex-Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold once hailed butyl as the king of all rubber synthetics, and roundly denounced Standard Oil (N.J.) for not putting it on the market. Standard's prompt protests that butyl was not perfected went unheard. But butyl, which was once programmed to supply 75,000 tons a year, proved Standard right, Arnold wrong. It is strangled in the intricacies of manufacture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUBBER: The Bottom | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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