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Troubled citizens had no way of knowing that. All they knew was that Congress was going to "tear the lid off rubber"-and high time, too-but once the lid was off all they could see was a sheaf of alibis, and a "dreadful" corporation called Standard Oil. Jesse Jones said it wasn't his fault, he wasn't really in charge of rubber, ever; OPC Deputy Coordinator Ralph Davies said he wasn't either; Rubber Tsar Arthur Newhall (who took over this April) said very little, but everyone knew that his boss Don Nelson was still...
...there actually was a small U.S. air force in China and that the force was growing bit by bit. At first it was too small for anything but occasional, unannounced sorties. Not until July 6 did General Joseph W. Stilwell, the top U.S. Commander in China, take off the lid with his Communique No. 1, announcing that the U.S. Army Air Forces were operating in China. Army bombers had struck at Hankow, Canton, Nanchang. U.S. Army fighters had escorted the bombers, downing Jap planes and scorching Jap fields...
...more cock fights, buying more radios and automobiles (when they can get them), using more telephones. The party was pepped up last November when all salaries were boosted 10 to 25% by law (in April minimums were set at $45 a month in towns, $39 out-of-town). The lid almost blew off in January when some 400,000 sugar workers had their wages hiked 50%. Part of these fat raises have since been wiped out by a 40 to 50% jump in living costs (mostly food...
...Crazy. Working on a grant from the Otho Sprague Institute, Dr. Masserman rigged up an automatic feeding apparatus which dropped some food into the feedbox of a glass cage every time a light flashed on. He then trained cats, one at a time, to lift the lid of the feedbox whenever the light flashed. After the cats were conditioned to associate light with food, he shot a harmless blast of air into the cage at the moment the cat reached for the lid. This gale at mealtime frightened the cats. After repeated frustrations the animals associated the feedbox and signal...
Most unique cat therapy was a method employed in human psychoanalysis. Like a good psychoanalyst, Dr. Masserman quietly observed his patients as they "worked through'' their own problems. They were given many opportunities to fiddle with the light switches and the lid of the box, learn for themselves what had produced their neuroses. Through repeated trials they gradually developed "insight" into the sequence of light switch, food, air blast, finally became welladjusted, normal cats...