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...said the U.S. Weather Bureau, glancing up from its charts and instruments. A psychological illusion. In the eastern U.S., July and August had aver aged only about two degrees cooler than normal. West of the Mississippi, the sum mer was slightly warmer than usual...
...England "vacation-land," August had indeed been wet, with 67% more rain than usual. Here was where psychology got its innings: vacationers consider wet or cloudy weather cold, even when the thermometer aver ages only a trifling two degrees below normal. And August is the month which most vacationers remember...
...office and selling rare books. At Columbia University he tutored campus numskulls, was a waiter, sold magazine subscriptions. On the side he was a night clerk in a branch post office. Summers he lectured on French Symbolist poets and once translated Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's Ecce Homo. He aver aged $1,000 a year and earned, in addition, a Phi Beta Kappa...
...swelling flow of U.S. war goods moving overseas pushed the value of U.S. exports in March to $930 million, the highest ever recorded in one month and more than triple the 1938 monthly aver age. Of this vast sum, Lend-Lease took $688 million. But imports, although double prewar 1938, were valued at only $243 million. This prodigious unbalance in U.S. foreign trade was a grisly index of the dreadful cost of war in terms of real wealth...
...last week, the 1943 edition of N. W. Aver & Son's Directory of Newspapers and Periodicals shows that: 1) U.S. daily newspaper circulation reached an all-time high average of 44,492,836 sales a day in 1942 (a 2,107,029 increase over 1941); 2) 80 dailies were eliminated by suspensions or mergers; 3) periodicals of all kinds now number...