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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans getting bigger? Not much, reports the U.S. Army, which has )een measuring them for uniforms for a long, long time. Last week Dr. F. E. Randall, who works for the Quartermaster General, compared the sizes of large groups of U.S. soldiers in the Civil War and World Wars I & II. There was no startling difference...
Even today, Miliza Korjus' vocal career is hard pressed by her zest for life. She dislikes singing in opera houses. "Averybody ees perspiring around," she explains, "the preema donnas are screaming, the stagehands are shouting. I am much uncomfortable een opera performances-besides, I do not like to haf to look over the heads of all the tenors" (she stands about 5 ft. 7 in her stocking feet...
Buna-S, conceived long ago, has had a most painful birth. It is produced by uniting, through heat, pressure and catalysts, two chemicals, butadiene (bewta-die'een) (75%) and styrene (25%). Styrene is not a basic problem; Dow Chemical and Monsanto should be adequately big factors in producing it. The bloody salient of the synthetic-rubber battle has been butadiene which, except for synthetic rubber, has so far no other reason for existence. Once the plants are created and producing, the problem again becomes simple; the rubber companies in their existing plants take the combined ("co-polymerized") butadiene-styrene...
...Said a señorita: "I never dreamed I would walk into heaven and be greeted by so many angels." Said an Ecuadorian engineer: "The burlesque! They are very good in Washington, but Philadelphia ees the best . . . what you say-plenty hot. ... A keese here is just a keese. Een Ecuador the keese is most wonderful thing. Here the girl, she keese the boy-that ees wrong. Een Ecuador the girl, she get keesed-ah, that ees good...
Some light on the baffling disappearance of Ian Thompson '43 was shed by his father who stated that his son ran away because of worry over minor traffic charges which have since been settled. The Dean's office made no effort to contact the student, missing since Hallow'een night...