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...sulfa drug, desoxyephe-dronium sulfathiazole (a combination of an ephedrine compound which shrinks swollen membranes, and bacteria-fighting sulfathiazole), have treated more than 1,000 Lockheed colds with it. The drug was used as a nose-&-throat spray and as a nasal pack on cotton. Result: "Rather prompt relief." The spray cannot be bought without a prescription...
This week, the House was set to pass the bill outlawing food subsidies after Dec. 31. The Senate is sure to do likewise. Equally certain is a prompt veto by Franklin Roosevelt, who killed a similar measure last July. To round out the fight, there is solid reason to believe that Congress will then sustain the veto. Many Congressmen will thus make a two-way record: They will have fought against subsidies and yet they will have supported the President, after...
...news executives were prompt to disagree with this academic handling of a practical problem. Said Edward T. Leech, editor of the Pittsburgh Press: "If we were to slant our news on the optimism or pessimism basis, we would then be propaganda sheets." Said Erwin D. Canham, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor: "Headlines should be written [only] to reflect the news as accurately and graphically as possible...
...Subcontractors : Responsibility of payment to subcontractors rests with prime contractors, who are urged to effect "prompt, fair and reasonable" settlements...
Evidence of the delicacy of the situation came in the President's prompt public repudiation of an OWI overseas broadcast which had categorized King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Pietro Badoglio as Fascists . The general tone the U.S. Government will maintain was rung in the Fireside Chat: "Our terms to Italy are still the same as our terms to Germany and Japan-'unconditional surrender.' We will have no truck with Fascism in any way, in any shape or manner.. We will permit no vestige of Fascism to remain...