Word: slowdowns
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...Norway, whose shipyard and factory workers are masters of the invisible slowdown, hate erupted like hot lava when Vidkun Quisling was installed as puppet Premier. Ready for action stood German troops with fixed bayonets, German tanks with troops inside. Nevertheless, two railway stations and the National Theater in Oslo were set on fire, bombs were tossed into a university building and into the House of Parliament. When arch-quisling Quisling stepped toward a balcony to receive the crowd's plaudits, the searchlights went out. Someone had cut the cables. Thirty-three friends of King Haakon were taken as hostages...
...appears in maples, sumacs and some other plants when slowdown of the trees' physiological processes prevents carrying away of the sugars (made with the aid of the fading chlorophyll out of air, water and light) from the leaves. These sugars turn into a class of glucosides called anthocyanins, which are bright red and purple pigments. Anthocyanins develop best where 1) soil is acid. 2) nitrates are scarce, 3) light is abundant. Thus the light-bathed tips of maple leaves and the sunny sides of apples are reddest...
...Hepburnwas fulminating about Canadian defense strikes, two of the largest ones were drawing to a close. This week 4,000 workers of the striking McKinnon Industries autoparts plant at St. Catharine's, Ont. returned to their jobs; 700 coal miners on Cape Breton Island voted to end the slowdown that had cut their production 40% (TIME, Sept...
...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...
...ether. Einstein incorporated the theory in the Relativity structure, as a consequence not of absolute motion but of relative motion-that is, of the clock's motion relative to a hypothetical observer. For a long time there was no experimental confirmation of the Larmor-Lorentz-Fitzgerald slowdown. Then, about two years ago, Dr. Ives used glowing particles of hydrogen gas as "atomic clocks," showed that their rate of oscillation slows down when the particles themselves are speeded up to velocities around 1,000 miles a second (TIME, May 9, 1938). The experiment was spectacular but the conclusion ambiguous...