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Next day the big guns spoke: A.F. of L.'s President William Green and C.I.O.'s President Philip Murray arm-in-armed in & out of the White House. Upshot: newspaper stories that the Administration had shelved compulsory manpower legislation "for the present...
Things stirred when the President toured U.S. war plants last month, spent more than an hour in the Higgins yards, left impressed. Upshot: a fortnight ago the President directed WPB, the Maritime Commission and the Army to find some use for Higgins' abandoned $10,000,000 shipyard-and find it fast. First result: the huge plane order...
Many of the sulfa-powders marketed in the U.S. were recently found to be contaminated with assorted bacteria (mostly harmless). Upshot: the U.S. Food & Drug Administration now requires all sulfa-powders to be heat-sterilized and carefully packaged. At least one person has already died of tetanus when unsterile sulfapyradine was used following a pelvic operation. Tetanus germs are among the group which sulfa-drugs do not affect...
Dynamite. One upshot of the whole situation has been startling activity in South American airlines. In Argentina, Italian-financed, eight-year-old Corporación Sud Americana de Servicios Aéreos was suddenly reorganized eight months ago, wound up with a new vice president: Ramón Castillo Jr., son of Argentina's President...
...hour sensation. Only U.S. newsman not caught napping was the Washington Star's tall, rawboned chief editorial writer, John Cline. Mr. Cline sat down to write an editorial about the Army's discovery. "The more I thought," he said, "the more the whole thing smelled." Upshot: the Star assigned veteran Reporter Joseph Fox, who covers the Justice Department, to investigate. Reporter Fox's probe led him to the Virginia farm of one C. Russell Bull, whose wife readily explained one of the markers: a figure 9, formed by gunny sacks in a field, which pointed...