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Some of the conquerors themselves are alarmed at the trend. U.S. businessmen, who have found themselves undersold in foreign markets by 40% or more on such items as X-ray equipment and cement-making machinery, are getting out their storm warnings. Some British firms are so worried that they are already bluntly reminding their customers that the Germans who today are winning export business away from the British are the" same ones who yesterday made the V-25 that bombed London. Headlined Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express: THEY'LL BEAT YOU YET, THESE GERMANS...
...patient of whom Dr. Schutte had just showed clinical pictures. Thirteen months ago, Senora R., wife of a Havana street-cleaner, was near death from a recurrence of cancer (an operation for breast removal four years earlier had failed to eliminate all the disease sites). Hormone and X-ray treatments were of no further avail...
...After that, he will try to turn into reality his own grandiose schemes for American railroading: a flashy advertising and promotion campaign to boost railroad travel; large-scale financing to buy new equipment (including as much as $250 million to be sunk into his low-slung "Train X"); reducing debt by having the railroad buy up its own bonds, and pressuring the ICC to raise freight rates. Eventually, too, another old dream would fit into the master plan: merging the Central and C. & O. into the biggest railroad system in the U.S. If ICC opposition to this plan...
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...year started sewing pages of Gibbon's Decline and Fall in his topcoat lining, and he had sent the first volume to the bindery and was half way through volume two before they got him. Pretty soon you're through the line, and it's your turn to be X-rayed. Sometimes it takes a while, but if you ask her for a date, she'll just smile and pat you with her tentacle, and you're free until morning...