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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drugs and Blood. Among the huge supplies of surgical materials stored up by the Government: 600,000 doses of tetanus antitoxin; 13,000,000 yards of gauze bandage; 225,000 stretchers. Over 100,000 donors in the London area, mostly women, are having their blood typed, expect to be ready for transfusions within a few minutes' notice. Blood of the universal Type Four, which can be safely used for all persons, has been stored in refrigerated banks, in special air-tight bottles...
...shaken mind could form the thoughts, sick Andre Tardieu must have given thanks that France, in this dark hour brought on by his generation's vindictiveness, was no longer led by doctrinaire democrats of the Blum type. At her head now was serious, square-skulled Edouard Daladier, up from schoolteacher and poilu to emerge, after years of bourgeois apprenticeship under stodgy Edouard Herriot, as a leader whose nationalism approaches that of Poincare or Clemenceau. "The Soldier's Premier" they now called Daladier. Ever since Munich he had been busy forging a Stop-Hitler ring around Naziland...
...President Roosevelt's original proposal for neutrality legislation." The New York Herald Tribune practically lined up with the British and French, and the Times went the whole way: "At last there is a democratic front. . . . Inevitably we are more deeply engaged in the conflict." The columnists reverted to type. Dorothy Thompson saw the world revolution coming nearer, Westbrook Pegler went yah! at the Communists, General Johnson was for letting Europe blow itself up, and Heywood Broun, hitherto a believer in the democratic front, began preaching pure pacifism. Said Eleanor Roosevelt: "Peace may be bought today at too high...
...earn their way through college are warned that they should not expect to earn more than three hundred dollars a year; outside of scholarships and prizes the average earning of three hundred dollars can be received either in kind--room and board--or in cash, depending on the type of work...
...these positions vary in the type of work and the amount that can be earned during the academic year, but the Student Employment Office has established a minimum rate of fifty cents an hour for about ten hours of work a week