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Borough officials all over London were working 16 hours daily to ease the plight of bombed-out people. But until the two new Coordinators should have time to use their dictatorial powers and slash red tape it was impossible for an evacuee to draw dole money, get railway fare for a destination in the country, secure transfer of ration cards, have children shifted from one school to another or obtain new billeting without standing in line for hours, or even days, at various offices. In one London area an official took some homeless children to a public bath, spent half...
Through the sandy, slash-pine country of southwestern Georgia last week rolled a brand-new U. S. Army truck and trailer. At crossroads, along the main streets of dusty little towns, its five-man crew went to work. Their job was to get recruits. Atop the trailer a loudspeaker barked a persuasive sales talk. Inside there were movies of Army life, three desks for interviewing applicants. It was the first of 18 rolling recruiting stations designed by the Army for its nine Corps areas...
Immediate reason why one-third (by mileage) of all U. S. railroads are in receivership or reorganization is their mountain of fixed charges (annual bill: $600,000,000), their recurrent burden of maturities. ICC, which must approve all reorganization plans, has lately shown determination to slash bonded debt before letting railroads out of courts, has insisted that stockholders must have real equities or be wiped out in reorganization. Last week two old offenders against the rules of sound financing got typically drastic sentences when ICC proposed its own plans for their recapitalization...
...that she was pursued by demons. Final confirmation of Chloe's story was provided by her belated recollection: "While mother was begging me to hit her with the hammer she asked me for a razor blade. I got one and gave it to her, and watched her slash her wrists." An autopsy confirmed the unsuspected fact...
Since then the "chemurgic movement" has gathered headway with soybeans for plastics and automobile enamels; casein (from milk) for fabrics and plastics; tung oil for paints; Southern slash pine and yellow pine for newsprint; furfural (for plastics, oil refining, wood resin processing) from oat hulls; anti-freeze fluids and fuel alcohol from cull potatoes; cotton for binding material in roads, pecan shells for charcoal. So far, however, chemurgy has not much helped the mass of U. S. farmers, as Congress' election-year fondling of bedeviled agriculture well shows...