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...left the Office of Price Stabilization this week to run for the Senate, Michael V. Di Salle (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) told reporters: "You just cannot imagine how silly one feels signing orders decontrolling dinosaur skeletons, sun dials . . . and even stuffed elephants . . ." Just before leaving, Mike was seized once more by that silly feeling. The OPS dropped price controls from nonprofit summer camps operated by churches, lodges, etc. which charge less than $30 a week. Reason: OPS had found out that "most summer camps were not in operation [during the price-freeze base period...
...pronounced the scheme "suicidal," but the Frenchmen thought they knew better. They hawsered four tugs to Long Henry, chugged away with him into the Kattegat Straits between Denmark and Norway. Off the northern tip of Denmark, a fierce storm blew up; Long Henry began to wallow like a waterlogged dinosaur. For an instant his long steel neck shot high above the waves, as if to get a last look at the shore; then, in a whirlpool of foam, he capsized and plunged to the bottom, taking with him one French sailor...
During the Cretaceous period, when mammals were still furtive, slinking creatures, the mighty dinosaur, king of the reptiles, ruled the earth. Then about 60 million years ago, the last of the dinosaurs vanished. The mammals inherited the earth and have bossed it ever since. Some geologists believe that the dinosaurs were too specialized to adapt themselves to a sudden change of climate. The trouble with the theory has always been that there is no way to prove that the climate really changed. Last week the University of Chicago's Dr. Harold Urey told a Los Angeles meeting...
...spate of speculation which followed its sudden notoriety in the press, the Loch Ness monster was variously identified as a school of otters, a killer whale, the wreck of a German zeppelin, a giant squid, an "abomination with a three-arched neck" and a seagoing dinosaur...
...opposed our participation in Hitler's war of aggression. For our anti-war propaganda we used, among other things, postcard reproductions of cartoons showing various pieces of war machinery in the shape of grotesque monsters. There was an immensely smug bomber chased by a ferocious little fighter, a dinosaur-like gun, a radio imp, and others...