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...Will vicious black markets spring up? Will untold rackets-unrecorded cash transactions, special surcharges for prompt delivery, etc.-such as are already gaining headway, grow and flourish...
Chile received prompt regrets from the German Government. Vice Admiral Julio Allard, Commander in Chief and Director General of the Chilean Navy, announced himself satisfied that there had been "no deliberate intent" to sink a Chilean ship, explained: "Inasmuch as the ship was proceeding without lights . . . the submarine could not know under what flag the Tolten was navigating." While the Chilean Government drafted a note protesting to the U.S. for the fatal order to extinguish lights, reportedly serving formal notice that Chilean ships would under no circumstances run blacked out, Ambassador Rodolfo Michels Cavero in Washington demanded another ship...
...lighting publicity displayed shall be blacked out. All occupants of premises with lighting on time switches shall be directed to extinguish them at or before 10:00 p.m., March 5, 1942. In case of movie houses, theatres, and other places of amusement, the management shall be responsible for prompt blackout of all exterior lighting promptly...
This proviso, however, was offset by recommendations and the setting up of machinery for the prompt interchange of strategic materials because of the "imperative character and extreme urgency of the existing situation"-in effect a freeze-out of whatever Axis trade remained...
...Sunday evening almost all the 960 casualties had been treated. Dr. Moorhead attributed this remarkable success to a sixfold program: 1) prompt transportation of the wounded to hospitals; 2) generous use of transfusions (there was a large supply of stored blood in Honolulu); 3) thorough débridement (trimming) of all injured tissue-if allowed to remain it dies, becomes a breeding ground for gangrene germs; 4) no suturing, even of big wounds -if left alone, new tissue grows up rapidly; 5) liberal use of sulfa drugs; 6) painstaking care after operation...