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To keep local munitions workers sober during the Great War, the government of Lloyd George expropriated a brewery in the north of England and severely restricted drinking in its chain of 450 pubs. When a British travel firm's Belgian parent company was seized by the Nazis in World...
Many container companies are beginning tentative experiments with recycling glass, paper and aluminum.
Shortly after the successful touchdown, Soviet ground controllers performed a number of checks to determine the spacecraft's exact orientation and location on the moon-information vital for calculating Luna 16's correct homeward course. Then came the main business of the mission. On a signal from earth...
From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis,, diarrhea, salmonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you place...
Principal Role. For Tidwell, that identification was startling. He knew that the fossil bed had been laid down during an age when earlier plants such as ferns and pinelike trees still dominated the earth's flora-some 50 million years before flowering plants are believed to have appeared. But...