Word: novas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikes were doing to Canada's war effort was out of proportion to their number. Some 4,500 had walked out of the General Motors-owned parts plant of McKinnon Industries, Ltd. in St. Catharines, Ont., crippling Canada's automotive production. Some 700 were coal miners in Nova Scotia, who since April have been on a slowdown strike, cutting their production in half, causing a shortage of coal for the railways carrying war goods to Halifax and difficulty in bunkering ships for England...
This time the challenger for Joe Louis' crown is a student of yoga, 26-year-old Lou Nova who has boasted that he is a Man of Destiny, that he will knock out the Champion with his "cosmic punch" (straight from the seventh vertebra, center of balance), and the aid of his "dynamic stance," his controlled breathing...
Probably about 50,000,000 radio-fight fans* will listen in for good reason. Not only is Lou Nova about as likely to beat Joe Louis as any challenger now afoot, but even if Joe Louis wins-and the chances, as always, are better that he will than that he won't-it may be Joe's last fight. Recently reclassified 1-A by a Chicago draft board, the Brown Bomber will probably join the Army next month...
...Rudolph Minkowski of Mount Wilson Observatory, "and was visible for a full month in the daytime sky. It was . . . one of the three supernovae which have appeared in the Milky Way during the last thousand years. The others were Tycho's star in 1572, and Kepler's Nova of 1604." In Pasadena next day Minkowski's colleague, Walter Baade, announced finding the debris of Kepler's supernova, which for a while shone as bright at its source as 25,000 suns...
Members of the hospital have already had active experience in combating epidemics in the United States and have also assisted in crushing outbreaks of scarlet fever, diptheria and meningitis, which arose last winter at Halifax, Nova Scotia...