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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many less fortunate newcomers, officially labeled by the refugee administration as "that group of persons which is not to be harbored in the Western zones," live in "wild camps" which are little more than mud holes-simply because there is no more room for them in the regular camps. Among the refugees, Communist agitators are busy extolling the glories of East Germany which they have left behind. Cried one rabble-rouser in a speech at Wiirzburg recently: "We have only one road-back home, barefooted and in our underclothes...
...salt-marsh species so thoroughly adapted themselves to life with DDT that it took ten times the regular dose to kill their wiggler offspring. The discovery justified an uneasy suspicion held by entomologists: when the weaker members of the tribe are killed off, the survivors, mating together, gradually produce a strain that can ignore...
...tract it forms a suspension of "innumerable tiny translucent gelatinous particles 0.5 mm. or less in diameter." It goes through most of the digestive tract unchanged, but loses water and turns to a bulky jelly about the time it reaches the colon. Dr. Bargen checked on its progress at regular intervals-through abdominal openings in patients who had had intestinal operations...
English Catholics had winced when the 1944 Education Act was passed. Under its provisions for new schools, better buildings and an extra year of compulsory education (to age 15), the total cost for Catholics was estimated at ?10 million-over & above the regular taxes paid to support government schools. Catholic bishops duly informed education officials that they could not pick up so big a burden. Since then, soaring building costs and various other factors have upped the original estimates to somewhere between ?50 and ?60 million...
...merchandising frills from its tonier competitors. The Houston store will make free deliveries of purchases over $5 and, like some other Woolworth stores, it has a "layaway" plan-a kind of charge account in reverse-under which a customer makes a down payment on a piece of merchandise, pays regular installments, but does not get the article Until it is completely paid for. The company also took another radical step (for Woolworth's) this year: it bought space in 325 papers in 216 cities to test the merits of nation-wide newspaper advertising campaigns...