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Best sample yet of this new go-ahead attitude came last week, when the newly tough rubber authorities turned down a new butadiene process that came from no less a petroleum technologist than catalytic-cracking expert Eugene Houdry. The rubbermen were still human enough to be glad to find an excuse in Mr. Houdry's steel figures, which appeared to be as high or higher than those for most of the program already under way. Mr. Houdry was mad enough to vent his spleen all over the place. But the important point is that, even six weeks...
While their pupils were clubbed in schoolrooms by storm troopers, about 98% of Norway's teachers refused to sign up with the Quisling Union. Quisling closed the schools for a month. When that failed, he gave the go-ahead to the Gestapo. Arrests in Norway totaled around 2,000, and 1,000 teachers went to concentration camps. Remembering colleagues who had been herded off to the Kirkenes mines, above the Arctic Circle, Norwegian teachers last week were in no mood to be coaxed...
...fact, no longer Singapore. Imperial Headquarters, with a go-ahead from the Emperor, had renamed the island, its harbor and its city Shonan. Sho was from Showa, which designates the enlightened era of Hirohito. Nan means south. Singapore was now Light of the South...
Taking advantage of the Administration's go-ahead on three and a half year degrees aimed primarily at drafted Seniors, a very limited number of N.R.O.T.C. students will attempt to finish up their College work in order to join the Navy by mid-winter...
...wheat, cotton, hides, plus a few imported, now hard-to-get ingredients (cork, rubber, tung oil, ramie-formerly used to wrap Egyptian mummies). Last fall Boyer turned out a few panels, had his lanky boss whang at them harmlessly with an ax, was overjoyed when Ford gave him the go-ahead for a complete...