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...Army's Ordnance Department is to supply the Army with guns and tanks, powder and explosives. On the business of turning out powder, for everything from pistols to 16-in. guns, Ordnance had to start pretty close to scratch...
...seconds in the backstroke and 300 yard medley, respectively. Powers' time was 2:13:8. Bus Curwen took a fourth in the 440 in 5:05, and the 440 relay team placed third behind Yale and Princeton. Shaw McCutcheon qualified for the dive finals, but had to scratch because of his dislocated shoulder...
...From Scratch. The Red Cross Corps had to start literally from scratch, for the entire army was infested with lice, and lice carry typhus and relapsing fever. Bamboo delousing stations have been set up all over China. Many hospitals have no sterilizers, so the doctors use clay pots; surgical instruments are beaten out of old knives. Modern operating tables cost at least $200, but Chinese doctors now build useful tables out of bamboo for ten cents. Only the most essential drugs are used, and often surgeons must operate without anesthetics. But they try to practice 1941 medicine. At present they...
...roller skates, Manager Martin got England's famed roller-skating Ridstones, James & Joan, to tour the U. S. Their spellbinding exhibition of figure skating started America's roller-skating boom. Today most roller skaters, instead of going round & round in the old-fashioned way, do the Chicken Scratch, the Howdy-Do and other "called-out" (square) dances, waltz, tango and fox-trot in pairs. More ambitious skaters learn to do rockers and counters, brackets and loops, hope to be able some day to compete in the annual April tournament of the R. S. R. O. A. (Roller Skating...
...Shealy is not starting from scratch. Florida is the oldest cattle State in the union; its first herds were brought by the Spaniards 300 years ago. But by 1906 cattle ticks had so ravaged the beasts that the Government banned the interstate shipment of southern cattle. In 1930, Florida ranchers had only 431,000 cattle, one-half the 1910 total. Then State-enforced "dipping" (in arsenic solution) started a comeback. The Florida Department of Agriculture now boasts of 1,400,000 head. But many Florida cattle are still underfed and mangy, bring only $20.90 a head (against a national average...