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...other African dialects to the programming. Every night of the year, however, they give their forgetful listeners an indispensable service in CABS's sign-off announcement, always clearly enunciated twice: "You must now turn your radio set off!" Otherwise 60,000 set batteries might well drain all night. By the following day, CABS would be without listeners...
...publishing the proposed plans for St. Paul's new setting, drawn up for the City of London's court of common council, Sir William Holford, professor of town planning at the University of London, declared himself against "any changes which tended to drain life away from the precinct." Said he: "It is too late to attempt for St. Paul's what Bernini...
...cooperative educational farm and instructed the Indians in sanitation. Later, when he was doing the same type of service in India, he washed the latrines before a meeting of independence leaders, and drily asked why they should "wait till the advent of swarai (self-rule) for the neccessary drain-cleaning...
...thin as it can. Further ideas have sometimes failed to materialize and others would result in certain overextension of the Museum's faculties. In the first category is the support of undergraduate painting. Coolidge has experimented with it from time to time but response has never justified the drain on space and staff...
...IMPORT POLICY will do an about-face. After ordering a 7% cutback in imports last year to bolster domestic industry, the Office of Defense Mobilization plans to boost imports 10% for residual fuel oil, mostly from Venezuela. Reason: an unexpected drain on oil stocks because of the cold winter and increased use of oil by industry...