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...been a bad weekend for the nation. Most railroads had put an-embargo on shipment of perishables. Thousands of vegetable workers in California had already been laid off. Imminent freight and passenger-train cancellations spread confusion. The war of nerves touched virtually every citizen in the land...
Test Run. The first shipment of British-built Ford cars, the Anglia and Prefect, were landed in New York. The cars, smaller and more expensive than U.S. Fords, have four-cylinder, 30-h.p. motors and do 28 miles on a gallon of gas. The price, f.o.b. New York: $1,395.64 for a two-door Anglia; $1,620.95 for a four-door Prefect. Young Henry Ford expects to bring in 12,000, thus make his own test of the U.S. market for small cars...
...Washington, the State Department studied legislation to authorize shipment of arms to the 16 Marshall-Plan nations. A House committee finished work on a selective service bill (which encouraged Europe more than the proposed 70-group air force...
...last January the Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif, made a routine shipment to their warehouse in Jacksonville, Fla. of 391 cases of 5% glucose in normal salt solution. All 2,346 bottles bore the laboratory code number CM-8164. Three months later a worried doctor in Hazard, Ky. telegraphed the American Medical Association headquarters in Chicago ; he had noticed alarming reactions in two patients who had been given injections from bottles labeled...
...impurity get into the glucose? Best guess of the Cutter Laboratories: the bottles were jarred in shipment and their rubber stoppers loosened. When the vacuum was broken, air rushed in and bacteria formed a poisonous mold that grew readily in the glucose. Laboratory technicians pointed out that all boxes of glucose they ship contain this warning to doctors: make sure that the vacuum has not been broken, and beware of cloudiness, a sign of contamination...