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...laboratory, the two doctors were working on earphones for the Navy. The listeners began to report strange, crunching sounds whenever they wore special earphones enclosing a small cavity. The sounds were at first discounted as mere heart thumps and breathing wheezes. But the investigators contrived a homemade gadget to clamp the earphones in place...
Police promised a week of leniency to local motorists while they adjust themselves to the gadgets, before they clamp down on violators. First offenders will merely be given a warning. After that, there will be successive penalties of one, two, three, and five dollars for each offense...
...Denver's snow-banked Shirley-Savoy Hotel last week, 350 convening delegates of the loosely spliced National Federation of Telephone Workers voted themselves a new name and a new power. The name: Communications Workers of America. The power: to clamp a throttling silence on 30,000,000 U.S. telephones with the flip of a switchboard jack. Both will become effective next June, after N.F.T.W.'s autonomous unions ratify the new constitution, formally turn over their sovereign rights to a new national policy board...
...curbing foreign trade at a time when the U.S, was asking the rest of the world to relax trade restrictions. (Commercial exports in May were $649 million, highest since January 1921.) But there had been no boom since OPA's death. If a boom started, OIT could clamp on controls in 24 hours. In effect, CPA was turning on the hose before the fire started. But CPA was bulling its plan through anyway. It intended to make doubly sure that there would be no fire...
Purity & Prayer. When the Army tried to clamp down a tight censorship on the whole story, the press naturally played it up as a "Mystery Epidemic." Actually, the babies had been stricken by a disease known and feared by every mother. Called epidemic infant diarrhea, or summer diarrhea, it is not uncommon in hospitals and other institutions where newborn infants live in close contact...