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Waste is the Answer-waste so criminal and so widespread as to give any citizen a temperature. The waste he sees reaches its peak in Army & Navy, but it is pyramided by the sluggish mental attitude of U.S. industry, "too long used to cheap materials and expensive labor, still addicted to the extravagance that made Ford use alloy steel radiator grilles designed to outlast the rest of his V-8 bodies by several lifetimes." Sample horrors en his list...
...spaniel named Sambo, once drew from His Imperial Majesty Hirohito-one of the few informal remarks an Occidental has ever heard from the Emperor of Japan. One day in 1934 Ambassador Grew took Sambo walking outside Tokyo's Imperial Palace. Sambo skidded and fell 30 feet into the sluggish water of the medieval moat that surrounds the palace walls. Japanese bystanders rescued the dog. The Tokyo press featured the incident. A few days later Ambassador Grew had an audience with the Emperor on matters of state. Like all such audiences, it was an affair of iron ceremony in which...
Sterile Men. Sexual potency in men is no sign of fertility, says Dr. Hamblen. In fact, overactivity may cause sterility for long periods of time. Underlying cause of male sterility is production of sluggish, weak, or scanty spermatozoa (there should be about 60 to 100 million sperms per cubic centimeter...
...late May or early June the wet monsoons come from the southwest, heralded by thunderstorms, and torrents run down the hillsides, baring the ribs of the earth. The valleys are quagmires then, and the flooded Irrawaddy rolls great sluggish masses of water through its many mouths to the sea. But not for two months yet. The Jap had time to take Burma, if he was not stopped, and he was not stopped last week...
...lack of fresh whole blood for transfusion, medical men thought most of the deaths were caused by the loss of red blood corpuscles. Later they discovered that the loss of the blood fluid was more serious, that when a patient suffers shock from burns, wounds or hemorrhage, the sluggish blood stream prevents the red corpuscles, even when plenty are left, from taking enough oxygen to the body cells...