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Farmers snarled, radiomen howled, railwaymen whistled, but Congress decided to give the U.S. daylight-saving time-the year round, for the duration...
SINGAPORE -- Japanese bombers were decisively beaten today in their first major daylight raid on Singapore and officials predicted that the Allies would have air superiority in Malasia within three days, but they said that meanwhile Kuala Lumpur, capital of the Federated Malay States and second city of Malaya, had fallen to the invaders...
While a guest sits comfortably in an easy chair sipping a drink, the open door of the secretary's office, lighted with artificial daylight, serves as a stage. At Dr. Souchon's command a Negro servant places one picture at a time on a big easel, leaves it there until an imperious click from a mechanical cricket in the doctor's hand signals for its removal. Meanwhile Dr. Souchon's secretary takes down in shorthand even the most irresponsible remarks the visitor makes. Painter Souchon, who enjoys showing his pictures almost as much as he does...
...Interceptor Command: "You don't send planes up unless you know what the enemy is doing and where he is going, and you don't send planes up in the dark unless you know what you are doing.") But at Mitchel Field, L.I. the alarm came in daylight, and although it was false the air force took off in good faith to defend New York City...
...Observatory's yard, an amateur, Carl Joseph Redland, in daylight hours a barber in the University Barber Shop, displayed a 12 1/2-inch reflecting telescope which he had made entirely by hand, even to iron-cast mountings, and the mirrow which is ground to a focal test accuracy of a millionth of an inch...