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...South wanted wage boosts up to the level of the Northern workers. The board granted a 7?-an-hour increase, reducing the differential. But in a statement which shot a bright ray of hope into the gloomy thoughts of economists, and reassured citizens who were worrying about an inflation spiral, the board declared: ". . . Workers . . . have no right to expect . . . wage increases during this war period which will enable them to keep day for day pace with upward changes in the cost of living...
Beating the Christmas gun by two days, a spiral-bound Register will be distributed to 705 Yardlings at 1 o'clock tomorrow in the Union. Extra copies will be sold as references to Radcliffe and Wellesley damsels...
...geology's oddest puzzles an odd solution was last week suggested. The puzzle was the origin of "devil's corkscrews," which are fossils six to eight feet high, spiral in shape, with whorls eight inches to three feet in diameter. Buried vertically, they are found in Nebraska's Sioux County in Miocene deposits 15-to 30,000,000 years old. Moreover, fossil beavers have been found in several of the fossil corkscrews, in which microscopic study shows an abundance of petrified plant cells. So two theories arose...
...moonfaced, twinkly-eyed, German-born little scrapper, was only slightly less famed than Williams, Yost, Rockne. He popularized the huddle, introduced the center's short spiral snap. To maneuvers he gave fancy names, such as the flea flicker, the whirligig, the sidewinder, the whoa back, the flying trapeze...
...feet over the Atlantic and the oxygen was sobbing comfortably in the crew's masks. Then it happened. Somehow the automatic pilot jammed. With its right aileron all the way down, the 15-ton Catalina went into a violent left turn, headed for the sea. In the dizzy spiral dive the aileron carried away, took part of the tip of the wing with it. Then the left aileron ripped off. An operator in the United Kingdom heard the frenetic chirp from the Catalina's radio: "Both ailerons gone...