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Sunshine & Dew. Automobile makers and owners used to think that the worst enemy of a new car's gleaming coat of lacquer was sunshine. Chemist Ralph J. Wirshing of General Motors investigated this notion, found it false. Experiments in Florida showed that a car's paint job suffered most from midnight to noon, least from noon to midnight. Wirshing suspected that dew was the enemy, confirmed this by experiments with artificial dew produced in a "dew box." For some unknown reason rain is much less harmful than dew. Moral: keep cars sheltered at night, even in summer...
Thousands of moths whirred dizzily around the floodlights, and the heavy dew of midsummer was in the air when a portable ramp was lifted from the baggage car, fitted to the President's Pullman (the Roald Amundsen) and tested. Then a big Secret Service car (District of Columbia license 104) rolled down the cindery hill road from the village, heading a small procession. The villagers, mostly Republicans (they were saying so all evening) rattled a few handclaps as Eleanor Roosevelt, in a loose, flowered green dress, stepped out first and walked around to stand beside the ramp; rattled again...
Austin Fellowships to Stephen K. Bailey, of Evanston, III.; George C. Bright 2G, Scranton, Pa.; William H. Cleveland Jr., of Austin, Tex.; George B. Cumming 2G, of Cambridge, Mass.; Richard Edwards 1G, of Englewood, N. J.; Robert R. Holt 1G, of Jacksonville, Fla.; Dale DeW. McAdoo 1G, of Cleveland, Ohio; Joe T. McCullough, of Painesville, Ohio; Grover C. Pitts 1G, of Richmond, Va.; James H. Soper 1G, of Hamilton, Ont., Canada; and Arthur R. Spurr, of Reseda, Calif...
...circulation, it had passed the Constitution (91,007), was Atlanta's biggest newspaper. It ranked third in the South, after the Memphis Commercial Appeal (124,010) and the New Orleans Times-Picayune (109,825), almost lived up to its slogan: "The Journal Covers Dixie Like the Dew." Atlanta newsmen used to wisecrack: "Yeah, it's all wet!" For the Journal had grown fat and stodgy; its editorial stand was typified by an annual piece called March Comes in A-Blowin...
Given $100 with which to increase the library in the University infirmary the committee, headed by Hobbing, will work with Keyes DeW. Metcalf, director of the University Libraries, in making its purchases...