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...vehicle selected to bear this man of nonviolence on his last journey was a weapons carrier. Those in charge of the arrangements, recalling Gandhi's opposition to machines, did not let the weapons carrier's motor propel it; men with ropes dragged it through New Delhi's streets. The men were soldiers, and soldiers headed the cortege. Police, about whom Gandhi also had had his doubts, lined the streets. Overhead, military airplanes, built to drop bombs on people Gandhi loved, dropped rose petals on Gandhi's bier. Tanks and armored cars rumbled behind...
Dependent on the U.S. for its motor fuel supply, Cuba was going to be on short rations at least until spring eased the U.S. shortage and released tankers for the Cuban run. As a stopgap move, the government last week ordered sugar-mill owners to put aside 40 million gallons of blackstrap molasses for the making of alcohol. Combined with gasoline, the alcohol would soon go into motorists' tanks as carburante national, a low-grade, high-knock fuel...
This week the greatest telescope is almost ready. It is housed in a softly revolving dome 137 feet in diameter. The telescope weighs 500 tons, but is so exquisitely mounted that an electric motor not much bigger than an orange turns it on its bearings. Its 200-inch parabolic mirror gathers four times as much nebula light as Mount Wilson's 100-inch mirror. Palomar will see twice as far, and it may tell Hubble whether the universe is really exploding-or whether even stranger things are happening...
...Mercury) he did not do as well. Young Henry Ford II thought he knew why: the bigger cars had always been subordinated to the manufacture of Fords. Last week, to give equal emphasis to all Ford-made automobiles, Young Henry set up the Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford Motor Co. as a nearly autonomous unit, connected to the parent company only by policy and financial control...
...Byers $18 $ 4.92 3.6 Consolidated Textile 13 5.69 2.3 D. L. & W. R.R. 9⅛ 1.93 4.5 Emerson Radio 23⅛ 5.65 4.1 Firestone Tire 35¾ 13.46 3.4 Martin-Parry 17¼ 5.97 2.9 Nash Kelvinator 16¼ 4.17 3.9 N.Y., Chi. & S.L. R.R. 44 17.82 2.5 Outboard Motor 21½ 4.38 4.9 Schenley 28⅜ 7.46 3.85 John B. Stetson 13¾ 3.77 3.6 Ward Baking 11¼ 3.03 3.8 Warner Bros. 11¼ 3.02 4.0 West Indies Sugar 23 10.78 2.0 W. Va. Coal & Coke 18 4.88 3.55 W. Va. Pulp & Paper...