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...decided to prove his point by breeding a strain of highly emotional rats, another strain of unemotional rats. His arena for testing rat emotion was a well-lighted circular enclosure about seven feet across, with a smooth linoleum floor. Since rats like nooks, crannies and darkness they found this "open field" mildly terrifying. They showed emotion by excreting. That excretion is a valid evidence of emotion is affirmed by the experiences of countless soldiers suffering extreme fear in battle, of some aviators just about to crash, by the observation of dog-owners who see their pets stop more frequently...
Armstrong Cork Co., manufacturer of linoleum, insulation and bottle stoppers, offered employes a "makeup pay" plan to bring their wages up to 24 hours a week if actual employment falls below that minimum. Its workers, depending on length of service, will be able to draw 54 to 120 hours' pay to make up below-minimum employment. Armstrong's President Henning Webb Prentis Jr., one of the more vociferous U. S. Big Businessmen, said the plan was "experimental," would be tried out at least through...
...retreated with Annabelle to a bare bedroom on the first floor of her parents' old frame house. She rarely emerged, often locked the door, kept frisky little Annabelle well hidden from neighbors' prying eyes. Sometimes at night Addie Belle's mother would tiptoe across the sticky linoleum floor and listen at Addie Belle's bed. The sleeping girl-mother babbled long monologues in gibberish...
...Chicago this week visitors at the New Bauhaus found an exhibition of bewildering nameless objects: gadgets of wire, wood, sandpaper, linoleum, felt, rubber and ordinary paper cut in odd accordion-pleated patterns. These objects, which sometimes suggested the scraps left in cabinetmakers' shops, and sometimes the more outlandish contraptions of Rube Goldberg, represented part of the first year's work of the 70 students of the New Bauhaus...
...years the proud White House police and Secret Service have been baffled by a form of crime they could not solve: minor robberies in the Roosevelt household. Missing were money, dresses, coats, lamps, pieces of linoleum. Secretary Marguerite Le Hand, Clerks Grace Tully and Paula Larabee, Chief Messenger Joseph Sheehan were victims. As a final result, $200 disappeared from the White House police fund...