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Elephants hate war. The Burmese elephant is an especially sensitive beast who loathes mechanized transport of any kind. He refuses to go near trucks, and he trumpets, shies and runs away when he hears even a distant airplane motor...
Assam and Burma own terrain which will not tolerate motor transport. Result: elephants have returned to the assistance of the Indian Army after a lapse of 40 years...
...Marmon, 66, automobile maker and pioneer designer of racing cars; of a heart attack; in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In 1911 his Marmon Wasp won the first 500-mile international sweepstake on the Indianapolis Speedway, averaging 74.59 m.p.h. He helped develop World War I's famed Liberty plane motor, later produced a notable 16-cylinder Marmon that was a symbol of automotive dash and speed...
...rolling into service. Yet the greatest fiasco of the chemurgic movement had been the 1937 investment of $275,000 of Chemical Foundation funds in a 10,000-gallon-a-day alcohol plant of the Atchison Agrol Co. at Atchison, Kans. This was an effort to introduce a motor fuel containing 10% alcohol. It was successful in using surplus grain but unsuccessful in competition with gasoline, and closed after a year. Today the plant is in expanded operation, making alcohol for rubber, explosives and war chemicals...
...relations. One major problem graphically discussed is the impact on the taxpayer of the overlapping of these three tax-collecting Governments within the U.S. (see chart). In 1941, reported the study, the five big sources of tax revenue were: the corporation income tax ($2.2 billion); personal income ($1.7 billion); motor fuel ($1.3 billion); payroll ($1.9 billion) and realty ($4.5 billion...