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Miss Smith did recall trying to use the tap unsuccessfully once yesterday to get a drink of water. Her efforts were rewarded by only a trickle of tepid rust, and she remembers turning this...
...foreign countries to be expended as scholarships for American students studying abroad. The maximum amount of money to be used will be one million dollars per country per year. Foreign countries, desperately in need of the million and one items from bulldozers to Quonset huts that are now gathering rust in American stockpiles overseas, and yet at the same time reluctant to part with their meagre reserve of American exchange with which to buy such equipment, have jumped at the chance to pay off their bills by financing a series of international scholarships for study within their own boundaries...
...Canada's-wheat farmers, rust is as fearsome a word as death or taxes-and once it was just as inevitable. When the fungus attacks wheat, the crop is destroyed. But after the black year 1935, when 85,000,000 bushels were lost to rust, Canada's Dominion Experimental Farms Service developed two "rustproof" wheat strains, Renown and Regent. Last week, the Service announced that rust, adapting itself to new conditions as Nature usually does, is now attacking the rustproof strains. But Canada's wheat crop was in little danger. Reason: the Service has developed...
...mile stretch of the Danube in U.S.-occupied Bavaria, rounded up 397 river craft. Tight-jawed G.I.s routed out sleeping sailors and their women, led them shivering on deck with the command, in G.I. German: "Snell-like" (hurry up). One fuzz-cheeked soldier who found a rust-covered fowling piece dashed topside, tripped, fell in the river in the best Keystone comedy manner...
...frustration, the play is over, in a sense, before it starts: all that is left to most of its people is recriminations and regrets. A selfish mediocrity whose family pampered him and thought him great, Professor Serebryakou is peevish now for having got nowhere, for having got old. Middleaged, rust-covered Vanya -who has sacrificed his life to the professor and declared too late his love for the professor's shallow, pretty wife-wallows in self-pity, and when finally roused to rage takes potshots at the professor-and misses...