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...Lesser Worries. The Brookhaven conferees heard some schemes for safe shipment (to researchers and doctors) of radioactive material. Examples: make shipping boxes too big to be carried in a pocket (too close to the body); put horns on boxes to prevent their being cradled against the stomach (a vulnerable spot...
...being discussed is allocation of critical materials; e.g., halting the use of steel for beer cans. Over that measure hangs the threat of a black market. Another idea is to give the Government the authority to step into the nation's farms and set aside grain for overseas shipment. That expedient will not control grain prices unless the Government also fixes the price at which the producers must sell...
...Government's plan to buy a total of 570 million bushels of U.S. grain for shipment had simply created an unbear able pressure...
...Army . . . was on the point of sailing from Boston under U.S. Navy escort to carry out scientific experiments on Canada's Melville Island, without so much as by-your-leave. Where is your respect for the sovereignty of others. . . ?" ¶"[Your] Office of War Transportation in Washington banned shipment of American coal into Canada . . . in a dispute over unreturned freight cars. ... [It was] a picayune incident which reflects a state of mind...
...doctor would corset his monkeys in waspish plaster casts (real girdles would not stay on), and X-ray them periodically. At week's end, Ivy thought he had a line on his monkeys: the Illinois Department of Public Health has a surplus shipment. No one had yet come forward with...