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When two vessels filled with helium II at slightly different temperatures are connected by a fine tube, a heat-carrying current of liquid will flow into the cooler vessel almost as fast as it would drain off into an empty one. And the countercurrent returning in the same tube will move completely without friction...
...actualities of production also favor the U.S. The U.S. can outbuild Japan time & time again in aircraft or ships. But the drain of supplies to other allied countries cuts down this margin...
When Japan began to build a war economy, she met her first predicament: having virtually full employment already, there was no slack for the new arms industry to take up, and it began to drain civilian goods, food and man power from her factories and farms right away. In the five years 1936-40 her standard of living fell by an estimated 40%. Industrial production, which hit its peak in 1939, has gone downhill ever since. At war with the U.S., Japan cannot increase this production. Only change likely in her dervish economy is the removal of some cotton...
...dealings with the Navy, Huck was equally brash. When the Navy suggested that he change the location of the PT-69's toilet, he replied that he would then have to run its drain pipe into either the exhaust or the officers' filing cabinet...
Most successful method of malaria control has been to drain swamps and pour oil on stagnant waters. But on the island of Trinidad, this system does not work. A mosquito of different habits, the Anopheles bellator, was suspected...