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PROFITEERING IN REVERSE
There has been much talk about the
swollen profits allegedly made by the
airplane manufacturers at work on war
orders. There are, of course, some var
iations in the experience of different
companies, but the annual report of
Douglas Aircraft which was published
recently briefly reflects conditions in an
industry which certainly has made a
major contribution to the war.
This report shows that the net profit
of the Douglas Company on a gross busi
ness of nearly $1,000,000,000, amounted
to $5,952,250 for the fiscal year which
ended November 30, or $9.92 a share,
compared with $15.38 a share on approx
imately half the gross volume in the
previous year. In other words, the pro
fit of this huge volume amounted to less
than 1 cent on every dollar’s worth of j
business.
The report further shows that while
government increased 103 per cent in
1943 over 1942, and reached 160,000 per-!
sons, unit costs to the Government of;
the airframe produced were reduced an1
average of 22 per cent on six models ip j
production. Other features of the re- i
port disclose that the company has train
ed and employed 12,000 physically han-:
dicapped workers and 16.000 men and|
women formerly in military service, i
Finally, the company produced, in the:
year under review, 112,000,000 pounds i
of combat airplanes and spare parts, of
which the Axis is now feeling the weight, j
(New York Times).
MORE ON PENICILLIN
Speaking in Philadelphia recently, Dr.
Chester S. Keefer of Boston, civilian al-j
locator of the new curative drug peni
cillin, predicts that the drug will prove
extremely useful for treating victims of
syphillis, a disease‘for wrhich there has !
been no effective remedy to date other ;
than arsenic. j]
^Dr. Keefer said early results of ex- 1
oeriments along this line “are extremely
promising”.
In addition, he pointed out, another
new benefit of penicillin is a great short'
ming of illness, both acute and chronc.
An example was given where among
100 men treated for injuries the saving
of working time was equal to many
/ears. Pain in the treatment of the 100
nen was almost wholly prevented by
penicillin treatment, in sharp contrast
o another 100 injured persons whose
rounds without penicillin were quite
painful.
Dr. Keefer said the uses of the drug
| now are well defined. It is the best rem
edy for gonococcus, meningococcus, and
staphylococcus, and good for some of the
streptococci and pneumonococci. It is
|good for tetanus, gas gangrene, diph
theria, some of the pneumonias and the
large series of infections caused by the
other germs named.
But it is not useful lor flu, typhoid
md paratyphoid fever, tularemia, bu
bonic plague, cholera, whooping cough
and tubercurosis, nor any well known
virus diseases.
When the germs it ordinarily kills get
into the heart yalves, penicillin loses
most of its curative powers.-?-(Juneau
Empire.
NOBODY’S ROAD
That Alaska Highway—formerly Al
can—quietly planned and rushed to
completion at great cost by the United
States Army, is in early way of deter
ioration for lack of maintenance—It ex
tends nearly all its distance through
British Columbia; and our army author
ities seem to have expected the province
to furnish workers for the upkeep.
Official thought across the line runs
contrariwise. Canada’s selective service
chiefs firmly say that British Columbia’s
own manpower needs are so urgent that ,
no men can be spared for an American
project. * ,
From the Canadian viewpoint, no
doubt, this decision is reasonable; and
not many Americans are in position to
say it isn’t. Americans wanted the road,
located its route, and built it. It might ;
have been better in the first place to find
out how and by whom the road wTas to
be kept useful: but that is not always the
American way of doing things.
The Alaska Highway is in Canada; of
benefit mainly to Canadians. It remains
an American project, and American? j
have the choice of keeping it up or quit
ting.—(Seattle Times, June 11th).
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Private Awarded
Soldiers Medal ;
HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT — In a melo
drama that might have come out
of a Hollywood script, Pvt. John
K. Hinde of Key West, Florida,
22 year-old coast ar'illery sol
dier, was recently awarded the
Solder’s Medal for his efforts in
anchoring a runaway barge load
ed with heavy government me
chinery.
The citation made by Lt. Gen.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., Alas
kan Department commander, lists
the deatils of the event as fol
lows:
“On February 16, 1944, at
Cook’s Bay, Alaska, Private Hin
de saw a barge loaded with heavy
government machinery break
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loose from i4s moorings and start!
drifting toward the open sea.
“Realizing that if the barge
reached open water, the sr4ong
wind blowing at that time would
probably blow it onto a rocky
shore and cause destruction of the
barge and equipmen4, Private
Hinde, without orders and with
out regard for his own personal
safety, took a rowboat and start
ed after the barge.
"The wa'er was rough and
cold. With strenuous effort he
was able to overtake it afteT it
had drifted several hundred
yards. Upon boarding the barge
he tied some ropes on'o three
pulleys weighing about 1,000
pounds each. With extraordinary
effort he pryed, shoved and beat
on the pulleys with a heavy tim
ber until they fell overboard and
anchored the barge. At the time
the barge was stopped, it was
;
i within a few hundred feet uf the
rocks,
“Private Hinde's display of
courage and initiative, without
regard for his personal safe4y, re
flects great credit upon himself
and the military service.”
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L. EUGENE S.
, STULL KILLED
Lt. Eugene Stroud Stull 3rd,
23, son of Eugene Stroud Stull,
Jr., and Hazel Ahrens Stull, of
Rutherford, N. J., and S'oddarts
ville, was killed in action with
' the army in Italy on May 17. his
family has been informed by the
War Deparmtent. Lt. Stull was
born on September 3, 1919, and
was a graduate of Pennsylvania
State College, class of 1942.
He was a member of the Kappa
Sigma Fraternity.
He was a member of the 337th
Infantry, Fif’h Army, when he
met death.—Wilkes-Barre (Pa.)
Record, June 15.
MOVIES ON THE FLY
IN THE SOUTHWEST PACI
FIC —(AP)— Marines are movie
conscious and often have to go to
extreme ends to maintain nightly
performances. On one occasion
three theaters showed the same
film in one night. One theater got
a few reels ahead, rushed them
by jeep to the second, which in
turn ran them through and sped
them off to the ’hird theatre.
"ADMIRAL," 17, ENLISTS
AS APPRENTICE SEAMAN
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M —<AP>'
—Louis Ray “Pat” O’Grady, Jr.,'
17, is giving up command of a
246-ship “two ocean ileet” *o en-!
list in the Navy as an apprentice
seaman.
His fleet consists of models,
representing 16 nations, ranging
from a three inch model of a Tur- ;
kish destroyer io a nine-inch j
mode) of the U. S carrier Snrato-|
ga. His pr.de is the new battleship
South Dakota which he copied so
minutely that the big guns can
be elevated or depressed in real
istic manner.
A high school junior, O’Grady
builds on a scale of one inch to
> . > * . • • « m • * A. ■ • • f « .1- -«■
100 feet, using balsa wood for the
most part. He started his hobby
five years ago when he and his
parents lived in Long Beach, Cal
ifornia.
AN OLD FAMILY CUSTOM
IPSWICH, S. D. —(AP)— Dor
othy Thomas was graduated as
valedictorian of her class at Ips
wich high school. All her seven
brothers and sisters were either
valedic'orian or salutatorian at
the same school. Next year for
the first time in 38 years, her
father, president of the school
board, will not have a member of
his family in school.
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