Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through recent international conferences will recognize the exasperating Soviet sweet-sour game, though in 1943-45 the exasperation was probably not all one-sided. The U.S. had reservations, too (e.g., U.S. airmen were briefed to destroy certain devices and documents in the event of forced landings on Russian soil). But, as allies go, the U.S. was certainly openhanded-and in return, its chief representative was snubbed, given the runaround, even scolded. "I was in a high dudgeon much of the time," says General Deane...
Owls & Mice. At 300 sessions, 1,335 papers were read, on everything from owls to unborn stars. An owl-man, Dr. Lee R. Dice of the University of Michigan, described experiments on the survival value of protective coloration. He sprinkled a laboratory floor with soil. He populated the area with deer-mice, half of which matched the soil in color; half of which did not. Then he loosed owls, turned down the lights and retired. Over a series of such experiments, the owls, ate 24 to 29% more contrasting mice than matching ones. This, said Dr. Dice, illustrated the biological...
...responsibility (hitherto shared with private capital) for developing the country's irrigable lands. Five million acres already have been reclaimed. New projects would reclaim an additional 50 million acres, which would be subject to Government supervision. For the elaborate new program of dam building, power development, soil study and land colonization. Aleman allotted the newly created Ministry of Hydraulic Resources a big chunk of the federal budget...
Hypochondriac purists will still have a large supply of pessimistic dismay and insomnia to keep them happy, for the first United Nations meeting on American soil dealt inadequately or not at all with many international sore spots. Franco Spain received only a routine rebuke; the veto is still too powerful a weapon in U.N. procedure; and trusteeship questions are still undecided. But the credits outweigh the debits, and the recent General Assembly Session may have charted a road on which nations can travel together in peace...
Andrews sees a silver lining in the sudden interest which the U.S. military are showing toward Alaska, whose eternally frozen soil is an ancient, well-stocked deepfreeze. "Mammoths preserved in cold storage for 100,000 years are not infrequently uncovered. Scientists should be behind [the bulldozers] to examine the frozen earth for fossils which will tell the story of our own lost history. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the body of one of the earliest human migrants to Alaska may be discovered...