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Eastwood, a lean, soldierly Yorkshireman of 53, who was elected last March after experience as a Liverpool bobby, promised to hand out "legitimate" news at daily conferences. Only other officers authorized to deal with newspapermen were Chief James E. Dew, whose bright red handlebar mustache has been nationally publicized on a Vox Pop radio program, and acting Inspector Sherman Lyons...
...immense number (TIME, June 20), this was enormously significant-if the rail averages confirmed the industrials by breaking through their previous high of 23.5, it meant a decisive change of trend. Two days later, rails, highballing after industrials, went to 24.9. To Robert Rhea, leading exponent of the Dew Theory, this was "more bullish than anything seen in the averages for more than two years." But Robert Rhea warned that though this meant that the secondary trend (wave) had changed from bear to bull, there was still no proof that the primary trend (tide) had done the same...
...lowlands. The savage Britons of that Stone Age period, who had learned the art of domesticating animals, had to keep their cattle on the uplands lest they be devoured. On the uplands there were few streams of water. With the eerie ingenuity which savages sometimes manifest, the herders built "dew ponds" which stayed full of water though the animals drank from them every day. Some modern authorities contend that rain contributes practically all of the ponds' water supply, but others disagree, claiming that dew-moisture condensed from the air- provides the important portion...
...latter view is taken by the editors of Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin (chemical news and scientific miscellany), who discussed the British dew ponds in last week's issue and gave an explanation of the heat economy which makes them possible. "Recent research," said the Bulletin, "has shown that water is nearly perfect as a 'black body' or a body that easily gives off heat by radiation." The pond must keep cool so that dew will condense in it, and so that it will not lose much water by evaporation. If it is insulated...
After digging out the basin for a pond, the Stone Age people lined it with straw, then covered the straw with a layer of clay. This furnished the necessary insulation. Some present-day English builders are reputedly able to make successful dew ponds, but they generally use concrete instead of straw and clay. Moreover, after construction, these modern ponds have to be filled with water first in order to keep going. Whether the ponds of the ancients filled up by natural accumulation of water, starting from a dry basin, no one knows...