Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be some city park that had beaver, chipmunks, and deer on the loose (like Brookfield, near Chicago, maybe). But, as it happens, Toronto's Algonquin Park (TIME, April 16) is about 180-odd miles from Toronto and has, in addition to the above-mentioned fauna, bear, mink, moose, and wolves (researchers beware). It is, in fact, Algonquin Provincial Park, with a post office and all, some 1,500 lakes, covering, I would guess, about 3,000 sq. mi. of "picnic grounds," mostly second-growth coniferous stand, with some virgin timber in the north...
...Allies it would be no easy task. Before their full strength could be brought to bear, troops and supplies must be moved from Europe (16,000 miles via the Panama Canal, 13,000 miles by ship and train via New York and San Francisco). Even more difficult than moving would be the job of finding places to base them. The Philippines, most convenient and adequate staging area, are 1,350 miles from the Japanese homeland...
...hamster is slightly smaller than a guinea pig and looks like a toy bear. It eats practically anything: carrots, cabbage, lettuce, peanuts, dog chow, calf meal. It drinks no water, getting all the liquid it needs from leafy vegetables. At mealtimes, it stows all its food in huge pouches in its cheeks; later it empties the pouches and chews at leisure. Its only defects as a laboratory animal: it likes to fight other hamsters, and a hamster, if disturbed during a delivery, may eat her young...
...come from tanks. Has the Major investigated to find out whether Chrysler is doing all it can to keep the dust down, or whether the dust is part of the test? . . . Does he know that the threat of strike has its legitimate uses and is most often brought to bear on management to force it to improve working conditions? The Major also loses sight of the fact that management, more often than not, is not doing all that can be done to increase production where increases are needed, that faulty management more than strikes has caused shortages, in spite...
...worse. Some of their importations survived (portage, grand rapids, mile, prairie), but by the time a few generations of American settlers had gone to work on them, L'eau Froide (cold water) was Low Freight, Pomme de Terre was Pumly Tar, and the dignified river L'Ours (bear) was simply Louse Creek. Strangest of all, perhaps, was the fate of a settlement named after the Dutchman De Geoijen. In short order it became De Queen, and the local news paper De Queen...