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Bones. Four days after his wedding in 1917, Yeats's wife surprised him by trying her hand at automatic writing. What she put down seemed of such profound import that Yeats pressed her to continue the experiment. For over two years thereafter he was busy filling notebooks with what certain self-styled "instructors," writing or speaking through his wife's mediumship, had to tell him. When he finally pieced his notes together into A Vision,* Yeats felt satisfied that he had got hold of something that, grasped fully, would "explain the world...
Sprawling, spawning, polyglot India is a tough territory for radio. Its 352,837,778 inhabitants, 89% of them rural, speak some 225 languages and assorted dialects of each. No receiving sets are manufactured in India, and a 50% duty makes their import prohibitive. Finally, electric power is scarce and only battery sets can be generally used...
...goldfish bowl"), nor go to chapel. They are almost a full year younger (17.8), two inches taller (5 ft. 5 in.), eleven pounds heavier (126), bigger around the waist, have nearly twice the lung capacity of the class of 1885. They may have men visitors in their rooms (afternoons), import Yale men for male parts in their plays, leave the campus weekends, even drink discreetly at Poughkeepsie bars. But Mrs. Allen says she failed to find a single Vassarite who ever went on one of the "gin picnics" which, according to college men, are a Vassar institution...
...Forbade withdrawals or transfers of Danish and Norwegian gold stocks, cash balances, credits in the U. S. (see p. 79), except by permission of the Treasury Department. Object: to keep from Adolf Hitler 1) $20,000,000 in Export-Import Bank credits recently granted Denmark and Norway; 2) private moneys, credits and goods whose Scandinavian owners might be forced to disgorge to the Nazis...
...Imports. No. 1 U. S. import from Scandinavia is newsprint and wood pulp. Of 3,550,000 tons of newsprint used in the U. S. last year, 300,000 came from Scandinavia and Finland. Of 9,003,000 tons of pulp used by U. S. manufacturers of kraft, newsprint, book papers, 1,305,000 came from Sweden, Norway and Finland...