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Slapped through last April to quench public indignation at the scandalous profits in the Jack & Heintz case (TIME, April 6) and others, the present law provides that on all war contracts in excess of $100,000 the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission may investigate manufacturers' costs and scale down excessive profits...
During the week, between 150 and 200 Frenchmen were shot. The Nazi executioners were trying hard to quench the fever of revolt which was rising ever higher in France. Last week trains loaded with Nazi troops and materiel were derailed, Nazi soldiers were assassinated. To seething, rebellious Paris, Adolf Hitler sent his chief executioner, lean, cold Reinhard Heydrich, whose name has become a horrid byword wherever hostages' eyes are bandaged and their arms bound...
NEVER COME BACK-John Nair-Little, Brown ($2.50). After throttling his leman, a London hack writer discovers she possessed the secret code of a traitorous political organization. His immoral cunning helps him quench the national danger and save his own skin after more murders, torture, Buchanesque chases and all-round wickedness. A thoroughly unprincipled, exciting, ably written tale...
...friends of solidarity urged another meeting of the America's foreign ministers, and others hoped that none would be proposed until Latin America fully realized that its No. 1 enemy was Hitler, fighting broke out between Ecuador and Peru (see below). If the other 19 American republics could quench this fire quickly, the hemisphere would emerge more united than ever. If they failed, Pan-Americanism would be a dream...
...quench the growing demand for reprisals against Germany in kind, the British Air Ministry announced that although it had confined its bombing to military objectives, many bombed factories were in densely populated districts where German civilians had inevitably been casualties, that according to "unimpeachable stories smuggled out of the Reich," 1,000 had been killed and 7,000 injured by R.A.F. raids on the city of Bremen alone, that in Berlin many had perished due to the collapse of cellars used as air-raid shelters...