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...Selective Service Act. Deeter realized that most of his actors would be caught in the draft. Five of his men were conscientious objectors, but to Deeter their consciences seemed to mean less than their contribution to art. The life of Hedgerow was threatened, and with it the lamp of culture...
...special blackout street lamp has been announced by General Electric. It is made of plastics and cast iron, with no glass, hence is fairly immune to shrapnel. The lamp is 9 candle power, gives one-sixtieth the illumination of full moonlight, i.e., barely enough to distinguish a pedestrian at 40 feet...
Some 2,000 church members crowded into the church. The photographers poised their flashlight bulbs. The parson's wife stepped to an oil lamp and held the mortgage contract over the chimney. In less than a minute, one of the tidiest church mortgages in the country (from a banker's viewpoint) was a crisp char of expensive ashes. The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles was free of debt, and the banks and other mortgagors owned $750,000 less of the more than $500,000,000 they now hold in U.S. church mortgages...
Sleeper. In Goldsboro, N.C., John Cotton slept while a thief brought in a floor lamp to make his work easier, stole the spread from the bed, also made off with Cotton's trousers...
When the doctors have a patient with a gangrenous foot or strangulated hernia (protruding loop of gut), they wheel him into an operating room, inject fluorescein, a reddish dye, into the vein of his arm. Then they darken the room, shine an ultraviolet lamp on the gangrenous area. The dye should make a circuit of the patient's blood stream in 20 seconds. If the gut or foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation...