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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many cities scattered throughout the Dominion. Each is a reporter or editor for a local newspaper like the Winnipeg (Manitoba) Tribune, the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Herald, or the Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) Blade. During the last six months the news file from Canada ran to more than a million words...
...punching the Alberta earth in search of new oil pockets ; but for the steel shortage, there would be twice as many. Also at work were 65 crews with seismographs and gravitometers, picking likely spots for the drillers to "spud in." In 1949, bills for oil exploration would top $20 million...
Measured in electrical engineering terms, the neurons are only one-thousandth as fast as vacuum tube relays, but they require much less space and much less power. Professor McCulloch estimated that if a calculating machine had only 10 million vacuum tubes (the brain has about 10 billion neurons), it would take the power of Niagara Falls to operate it and the Niagara River to keep it from overheating. The brain is cooled by a comparatively small river of blood. When awake and in full operation, it raises the temperature of a pint of circulating blood one-half degree a minute...
...Wild Animals. He was planning a Union of the Rising Generation of the World to protect boys & girls not only rom the Wildmans of the world but from their own parents. After a quick leaflet campaign, he opened his crusade at Kingsway Hall. "If all the 12 million children in the country joined the union," he solemnly told his audience of 24 children and a few adults, "it would be the strongest body in England-and I think they would make a better job of running it than their elders...
...Chicago barber, "I couldn't stay away from it long . . . I hadda get up in front and sing." In 1946, he made only $2,000 at it. Then things began to happen-for one, his recording of That's My Desire caught on belatedly, sold a million records. The way the bobby-soxers started crowding around, he began to look like a well-nourished Sinatra. Last year, he raked in about...