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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standards of life being raised," Dr. Nourse said dryly, "... when a great labor organization sees the current situation as 'the occasion for a reduction in hours of work'... or when the czar of coal orders a three-day week with full pay . . . and when pensions at 60 are demanded for a population steadily becoming longer lived...
...Nehru got an official reception at New York's City Hall (which was being picketed by striking Sanitation Department workers), visited U.N., saw a stream of callers at his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria. One night, he drove up to Columbia University; at this shrine of mass education (current enrollment: 29,200), President Dwight D. Eisenhower conferred an honorary doctorate of laws on the Cambridge graduate, some 90% of whose countrymen cannot read or write. As newsmen worked over Nehru in a klieg-lit, stifling hot little room, Eisenhower nervously chewed his mortarboard, muttered: "This is a terrible...
Last week the Portland school board suddenly sat up and took notice. For one thing, the current Ladies' Home Journal was carrying an exposé of such societies that quoted a former Portland boy named Chuck Swanman. On "Hell Night" he had been taken to a faraway golf course "where the cops can't hear you yell," forced to drink a mixture of a searing hot sauce compounded with pepper and garlic and ordered to smoke a handful of cigars, inhaling every puff. After he vomited, the "hackers" went to work, whacked him 50 times with an inch...
South Pacific, Broadway's biggest current moneymaker, was taking in some $7,000 a night last week. But, its producers estimated, ticket scalpers were making $18,000 a night on the same show. Indignantly, Broadway's leading angel, Howard S. Cullman, totted things up: in a year, he figured, South Pacific will take in $3,000,000 while its parasites rake in $8,000,000. The public goes on paying for both...
...their wild state, says Moncrieff in the current issue of Discovery, moths did not eat wool. Their larvae ate dead animals on which the females deposited their small white eggs. But as soon as man started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never...