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...Army's present three extremely hearty meals per day have not proved tempting enough, War Secretary Duff Cooper amid laughter and cheers upped the Army's gustatory ante to four meals per day, with butter thrown in to replace customary margarine and "for younger soldiers a ration of milk to build them up." Instead of having to take care of his uniform and replace it at his own expense, Tommy Atkins will at all times be "completely equipped free" by His Majesty's Government, not only with service uniforms but with a "walking out uniform" of fetching...
...whole flood area. Sitting on comparatively level ground where the Ohio drops 26 ft. in two mi., Louisville watched its west end sink under the yellow torrent which drove 200,000 from their homes. Telephone service was disrupted. The city was put on a two-hour water ration each day. As sewage backed up in the municipal disposal system, two typhoid inoculation stations were established. Bus and trolley service was abandoned and only the Southern Ry. continued running out of town. Electric generating plants by the river faltered, then quit on Sunday night, plunging a city of 330,000 into...
Awarded. Posthumously, to Flyer Wiley Post, killed last year with Will Rogers in an airplane crash in Alaska (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935); the medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, civil aviation's highest honor; in Tulsa, Okla. Oilman Frank Phillips of Bartlesville, Okla., backer of many Post flights, made the presentation to Widow Mae Post...
...Chicago's Century of Progress, but the Executive Committee well knew that the picture would offend their pious, Roman Catholic boss, tall, white-haired Dennis Francis Kelly, who was trusting his subordinates to keep things in order while he vacationed in California. Another shocker was the angry Ration Box and Crucifix, in which Artist Adrian Troy expressed his opinion of the state relief administration with two scatological words seldom seen in paint or print...
...Lake Shore Drive, Chicago youths, adolescents and gallery-goers found that Modern Olympia had been given the show's most prominent position, at the top of the stairs leading to the second floor. Ration Box and Crucifix could be seen on the third floor, leaning against a radiator...