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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Socialism and security are not the only factors working against freer trade. Chemistry ("the science of substitutes") and the export of machinery make it possible for many a once backward nation to dream of self-sufficiency. This technological tendency has been encouraged by the wartime and postwar shortage of transportation. The danger is that in the last two years wartime necessity may have hardened into peacetime policy, and that not even U.S. tariff concessions will be able to unfreeze worldwide restrictions. An expert from one of the "middle powers" at Geneva had this to say, privately, last week...
...Cowles thinks not. Last year, while dissecting Brewer's blackbirds (Euphagus cyanocephalus) he discovered that their testes moved downward and backward during the warm spring breeding season. In the new position they were "enveloped between the two dorsal folds of the abdominal air sacs." Cooled by circulating air, they could function properly, though the general body temperature might be much too high for them...
Their testes, too, behave as he expected they would, moving backward during the breeding season toward the tail membrane. Dr. Cowles postulates that the venous blood, returning from the air-cooled membranes, keeps their temperature down. Next step will be to prove it with accurate observations. Fellow zoologists cheer him on, but predict that he will have trouble when he tries to take the temperature of a bat's testes while it is flying...
Moscow's contingent (from the Soviet Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kirghizia, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) got in some propaganda punches for Russia's brand of imperialism. Said the Armenian delegate: "My people were backward until we became a part of the U.S.S.R.; after this event our period of hardship ended forever." The Russian section had a formula for every problem: try Communism...
Fast Enough. How fast is a snail's pace? At College Park, Md., U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service conchologists (mollusk fanciers) were measuring to find out. Dr. Paul Galtsoff puts a seagoing snail inside a drum of transparent plastic. When the snail moves (either forward or backward) the drum revolves, recording the snail's motion on a sheet of smoked paper. Conchs move fastest: an average 19 feet an hour. Little oyster drills, one inch long, move only a couple of feet...