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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thundered Azerbaijan: "Having achieved their democratic freedom . . . our people not only refuse to wear such clothes, but also consider those who trade in them traitors who act against the interests of national industries. Everybody must try to use the homemade goods so that our nation can stand apart from the coming world crisis. We repeat that Azerbaijanis detest and despise the secondhand clothes of others...
...plot. The "situation" routines, a part of the permanent repertoire of the Marx Brothers, were few. Groucho's gags, when he grabbed the opportunity to pull one, were in character. When asked by a seductive Parisienne: "Won't you join me?" he answers, "Why are you coming apart?" The love angle between Charles Drake, a strapping young Frenchman with uncombed hair and Lois Collier, and ex-horse opera heroine, is happily , hardly enough to keep balcony couples interested...
Similar interruptions are typical of those who struggle through the blank forms in Memorial Hall today. Nearly all of them are either "old veterans," returning to pick up the loose threads of an education rudely ripped apart by unfortunate necessity, or new Freshmen older and more mature by several years than the prewar average...
...sharpness of the struggle was reflected in negotiations between the union and the Dominion Marine Association. At first, management accepted the eight-hour day in principle, provided the union made no other wage demands. But as the strike continued, the parties drew apart. Angrily the owners charged the union with breach of its contract. A four-day truce, tentatively accepted by the negotiators, was flatly spurned by the two biggest operators...
Apparently Dr. Slotin and seven or more other scientists were working with "subcritical masses" of uranium or plutonium. Kept apart, these masses were lifeless as lead, but if brought together to form a mass above "critical" size, a chain reaction would start. Its violence would depend on the character of the materials. Probably they were midway in activity between mild-mannered natural uranium and furious plutonium...