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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to his depression he was suffering from schizophrenia (split personality), and schizophrenics have the power to forget their bodies, to remain for hours in one position, no matter how painful or precarious their plight. Contrasuggestibility (perversity) that also accompanies this disease was aroused by the persistent efforts to get him inside. Finally, his desire to contradict overcame his urge for life...
...broad interests were reflected most clearly on the first page of the Sunday editorial section, long known as "the dignity page." Here were expositions of significant national and international developments ; detailed exposés of economic, religious, racial repression, written by reporters who knew their stories would get into print. Most spectacular example of his editorial discretion was his iron refusal to accept the news of the Armistice that turned out to be false. Bovard was always calm, never lost control of his emotions. Once his star rewrite man got a big story just before the deadline, became so nervous...
...causing pressure and temperature changes characterized by a sharp "ping." Knocking quality is measured in octane, a 100% antiknock laboratory fluid. Most regular-grade automobile gas is about 70 octane. By polymerization Phillips Pete developed 100 octane gas-useless for modern automobiles but invaluable for airplane engines, which must get maximum efficiency and sudden "burst" response on take-off or emergencies. Howard Hughes used 100 octane gas provided by Standard Oil on part of his round-the-world flight, and it is increasingly in demand in military aviation...
...there have been earthquakes. In 1831 the slaves revolted; in 1865, finding serfdom no better than slavery, they revolted again. Both revolts were put down, with hanging and shooting. Life has not improved much since 1865 for the 1,000.000 Jamaica Negroes. Lately they have not been able to get work in other islands of the West Indies. A good weekly wage for a field hand on a banana plantation is $3. Year ago there was a boatmen's strike in Montego Bay. Since then, Jamaica has been simmering like coffee in a percolator. Last winter cane-cutters...
First thing that occurred to the British was sabotage. But the theory was too easy: no Negro was likely to kill a hundred other Negroes to get a train wrecked. At week's end, as investigations started, it appeared that the excitement about the wreck had at least had one result: Liberation Day passed peacefully, without a rising...