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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said unhappy "Hap" Arnold: "We have not placed the contracts [for 4,200] . . . due to the fact that the industry feels that there are so many uncertainties, unknown quantities that they have to contend with. . . . The Vinson-Trammell [profit limitation] Act has something to do with it; taxes; uncertainties with regard to labor. ..." Said Rear Admiral Towers, recalling that Congress had cut the allowed profit on Navy contracts and Army aircraft contracts from 12 to 8%: "There are two reasons. The reduction in . . . profit . . . has made it very difficult for the aircraft manufacturer to place subcontracts [which] work out about...
...disposed of his camp uniform (brown shirt and blue shorts) and put on a sack suit he had taken with him to Canada. He found Canada was a more delightful place than he had dreamed. A gasoline station gave him a map. A friendly fellow taught him a trick unknown in Europe, how to thumb a ride. Obliging motorists gave him lifts to Toronto and on to Montreal. Kindly people gave him food, tobacco, even money, but there was one thing no one thought of giving him. When he tried to cross the Victoria Bridge at Montreal he was asked...
Hitler's artists (nearly all unknown outside Germany) had sheep-footed it neatly along their Führer's academic path. Patriotism, heroism, war and svelte, 100% Nordic nudes dominated the show, with many busts and figures of Mussolini and Critic Hitler thrown in for good political measure. The most competent of this art (like the innocuously pleasant white Aryan nude of No. 1 Reich Sculptor Josef Thorak) would not have disgraced a high-class Victorian barroom of the 18905. The worst of it, resplendent with heiling storm troopers and Prussian eagles, would have looked well...
Several years ago, Dr. Allen broke down large cancerous tumors in mice, rats and dogs by tying off, for short periods of time, the arteries which fed the tumors with blood and oxygen. For some unknown reason the normal tissues surrounding the tumors were not affected by lack of nourishment...
...Kunming railway might carry if Indo-China should by any chance allow troops to cross her territory. Merchants arrived lugging the Oriental equivalents of carpetbags. Three destroyers lay off the port of Haiphong. A large fleet, including no less than 18 troop transports, sped South Seawards from Formosa, destination unknown but possibly to help supervise traffic through Indo-China. Japanese closed the French-leased South China port of Kwangchowan, 150 miles from Indo-China...