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Things were considerably worse at the Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, where, it is reported, Mrs. Siy, the early-shift char, came in to find a femur of the long-jawed dactyl bearing the legend: "Lamarck was here." At the Jefferson Physic Laboratory, a freckle-faced bootblack was captured brining a candle at both ends and rapidly making calculations...
...sailors bowed their heads. One of the florid old men in the corner turned redder than ever and shuffled his dominoes. "Can't you show no respect?" hissed the fat char. "Garn!" grunted the old man. "First women-then this...
Nine years ago Hero Konowal got a job as chairman in the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa. He works seven days a week ($4 a day), mops floors, washes dishes for the char staff. In addition to his salary he draws a monthly wartime bonus of $18.40, and a $15 war pension (non-taxable). Out of his $1680.80 income, Philip Konowal last year paid $100 for war bonds, $230 for income taxes. Hero Konowal is grateful to his adopted Canada. Said he last week: "She fixes me fine...
Called Seaporcel, a silica product, the coating is first sprayed, then fired on the surface of metal. The Navy and Maritime Commission are covering bulkheads, doors, crews' quarters and galleys with it. It does not char, chip or crack, can be cut or tack-welded like uncoated metal, and actually strengthens light steel sheets to which it is applied-a quality which may make it possible to build lighter ships. Whether Seaporcel can be used on a ship's hull is still a moot question; the Navy is testing to see whether barnacles will grow...
Less than five days before, those freight ers had been loaded in the U.S. Crack air line pilots, to whom ocean-flying had be come routine, had taken them across 15,-ooo miles of war-char ted airways with no more trouble than they once hauled mail and passengers between New York and Chicago. It was the biggest mass freight flight in aviation history. And although its total freight load was only 90 tons, airmen knew that when peace comes that load could be multiplied almost indefinitely...