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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JOHN L. BALDERSTON JR. Oak Ridge, Tenn...
Busman's Holiday. In Moscow, Idaho, Mayor W. L. Anderson suspended two policemen for letting delegates to a police officers' convention speed through town at 2:30 a.m. with sirens shrieking...
...Future. War-fattened Republic Aviation Corp. announced that it would retain between 4,000 and 5,000 workers fulltime, many of them to turn out its new commercial transport. All experimental contracts for war craft have been retained, and certain new military models will continue in production. The Glenn L. Martin Co. announced $180 million worth of peacetime contracts for military and commercial aircraft-enough to keep their Baltimore factory busy on a 40-hour work week until September...
Teeth grow from tiny buds (tooth germs) which are present in the gums at birth. Drs. Harry H. Shapiro of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Bernice L. Maclean of Hunter College removed some buds from week-old kittens, transplanted them to the mouths of other kittens and full-grown cats. Result (as reported in the Journal of Dental Research) : all the buds grew into full-size teeth. Eventually, said Dr. Shapiro last week, it may be possible to take a tooth bud from a child whose second teeth are obviously going to be crowded...
...Stephen L. Higgins & wife of Sanford plopped calmly out on a Maine tidal flat, began blitzing the bivalves with a common rubber suction plunger (the kind used on a stuffed-up toilet). cIn the time it takes an uninitiated digger to gather several dozen clams, the Higgins had two bushels of them (current price: $4 a bushel...