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While the committee deliberated, OPA decreed emergency rationing of meat in Los Angeles (as in San Francisco and Rhode Island) to alleviate suffering, started criminal action against black markets wherever they could be found. Also California prison officials got State permission to graze cattle in Palomar State Park, the meat to go to Folsom, San Quentin and Chino prisons. Quipped the Los Angeles Times: "How to obtain plenty of meat-become a convict...
...Completion of the giant Mt. Palomar telescope, which will increase the visible universe eightfold, has been postponed for the duration. Reason: the necessary technicians have been transferred to military work...
...must have been designed and assembled. When they had cleared up details in several experimental models, major U.S. observatories began building larger Schmidts. The biggest (24-36 inch) was dedicated last fortnight at Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Observatory, and others are nearing completion this week at Harvard, Mt. Palomar, Tonantzintla, Mexico...
...that red photographs poorly and suspected a lot of nebulae were being overlooked. Their experiments with plates sensitive to ultraviolet light revealed so many additional nebulae that the question of whether there is anything but emptiness beyond the range of present lenses must remain unsolved until the giant Mount Palomar telescope is finished in 1942 or 1943. This will see twice as far, catch light rays that left the stars a billion years...
...removed. Troops at the Paraná air base were confined to quarters for twelve hours. Soon new troops took over at Paraná and the Government's Aviation School at Córdoba. Aviation munitions were moved from airports to infantry depots and the Military College at El Palomar. Commander of Army Aviation General Angel Maria Zuloaga not only resigned but, the next day, was removed by decree. The Government announced that disaffection among many Argentine flyers would be investigated...