Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anti-Nature. But the floor show of the week (which Citizen Washburn apparently missed) featured Senate debate on a bill authorizing the District of Columbia Commissioners to institute daylight-saving time in Washington...
Although most District citizens liked daylight saving during the war and want it back, most Senators come from areas prejudiced against "fast time." Nevertheless, Rhode Island's J. Howard McGrath thought the Senate ought to do "what is good and desirable for the people of the District of Columbia...
Between the dusk and the daylight When the broadcasters step up their...
...through the jungle sniffing out the tarsiers by their musty odor. When the hunter shakes the trees, the tarsiers move on. When a sizable number have congregated in an isolated tree, the natives shinny up and grab them, knowing that tarsiers, like owls, cannot move around very efficiently in daylight...
...TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into a honking, gear-clashing bedlam of traffic...