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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train swung 188 miles up the Mississippi to the sleepy, picturesque town of Louisiana, Mo. There the passengers witnessed the dedication of two plants, developed by the Bureau of Mines at a cost of $15 million, to convert coal into oil. This was the biggest step the U.S. had yet taken to create a synthetic oil industry against the possibility of war or of exhaustion of petroleum reserves...
Vital Statistics. In Tokyo, the Public Health Bureau announced the results of a survey of "democratic" habits: male college students choose as their kissing partners 1) coeds 60% of the time, 2) waitresses 20% of the time, 3) maids 10%, 4) other females...
Geologists from Australia's Bureau of Mineral Resources have studied the crater and found some proof that it was made by a large mass of meteoric material that plunged into the earth at enormous speed and exploded like a bomb. The piles of rock in the rim are fractured as if they were blown out of the depression. The undisturbed rock layers of the region are horizontal, or nearly so, while the strata near the crater dip downward from the rim. The geologists found no meteoric iron, but they did find chunks of peculiar rock containing 3% of nickel...
...Raggatt, the bureau's chief, thinks the meteor must have struck thousands of years ago, before the black aborigines settled in Australia. Otherwise, he says, "there must have been such a hell of a bang that it would have been recorded in native legend...
...Squeeze. Industrial employment was also still falling. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that non-farm employment dropped 225,000 in April, though farm jobs rose by 427,000. But even that was less (by about 275,000) than had been expected. Overall U.S. employment of 57,819,000 was under last year's 58,333,000 at this time...