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...their real problem was Defense. Retailing, they knew, would be the first salient in the as-yet-undrawn line between guns & butter in a war economy. They are in the butter business; how would it fare...
...quiet on the continent of Africa last week. Only important development in the Kenya campaign was the withdrawal of British troops from Buna, at the mouth of the Moyale salient occupied by Italian troops (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Water is more important than steel in desert warfare. The British claimed that the water supply of Buna was sufficient for only a small garrison, and that the wells were within range of strategic hills from which the enemy could shell them. But what the British troops apparently feared more than thirst was a nutcracker attack which would flank Buna...
...town coroners last week, Dr. Wadsworth sounded off on "pseudo-experts, damned-old-fool judges, tissue-grabbing pathologists, psychopath lawyers." He gave a lecture on ballistics which mocked many a detective-story cliche. Salient points...
Last week famed Biologist Kenneth Manley Smith of Cambridge University published a full account of this hostile force called The Virus, Life's Enemy (Macmillan, $2). Salient facts...
Last week a FORTUNE Poll, taken between the Republican and Democratic Conventions, reported some of the most sensational reversals in public opinion to date, indicated that President Roosevelt would carry little outside the Solid South (see col. 3) if the election were held immediately after the Conventions. Salient FORTUNE findings...