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...nation from strategic materials. Last week, when Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard told a Senate subcommittee that 80,000,000 bushels of wheat could be made available for manufacture of synthetic rubber, angry Senator Wheeler wanted to know why the delay. "You've been asleep at the switch," shouted wide-awake Mr. Wheeler...
Spellbinder. In Louisville, Mayor Wilson Wyatt made an electrically transcribed speech, played the record back to himself to hear how he sounded, fell asleep before he had finished...
...have come from India--see the reply of Tagore to Noguchi. For the past five years while we and England have been freely trading with Japan, India led by the All-India Congress has been boycotting Japanese goods in protest against the invasion of China. India has been less asleep than...
Here again India is not asleep--and this is the point on which American opinion most commonly goes wrong. India has more than a million men under arms, mostly volunteers. Voluntary enlistment continues at the reported rate of fifty thousand a month. One-third of these soldiers are on fronts outside of India. As fighters they have given a good account of themselves. The bottleneck of Indian defense is not at the enlistment office, nor in the debates among parties: it is in the equipment. The picture of an India sleep-walking while her house burns is wholly false...
...illuminated henhouses, report scientists : Rutgers University and the University of Maryland. Reason: hens feel an urge to lay eggs at 26-hour intervals-at 8 a.m. one day, 10 a.m. the next, etc.-and in an ordinary 24-hour day the time to lay eventually comes when they are asleep...