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Slowly, too, the sleeping giant that is the U.S. military production potential began to stir. Cadillac Motor Car agreed to produce new-type 28-ton tanks for the Army (see BUSINESS). Washington's paperwork for $16 billion in war orders was already done, and only the dispatch of official telegrams was necessary to place $900 million in "phantom orders" for machine tools...
...taught them scraps of Latin. By 1630, "Thieves' Latin" had all but passed away, to be replaced by the cant which fathered U.S. gangster and hobo language-a rich mulligan of native ingredients peppered lightly with foreign words, e.g., booze from the Middle Dutch bus en (to tipple), stir from the gypsy stariben (a prison...
There was hysteria nowhere, though a few overzealous merchants hoped to cash in on any they could stir up. "War is not around the corner, it's here!" shrilled Dallas' Alexander Motor Co. "What will you do? Play safe or be caught with an old car?" Even without such a shock treatment, there were people who, remembering World War II shortages, rushed to get on new car waiting lists. Tire sales zoomed, but there was little evidence that housewives were stocking up on groceries...
...taught him to wrestle, tackle and pass a football on the Lincoln Park lawn. This ended when Bushman was six Conscious of his 160 Ibs., he good-naturedly refused to go back to his cage one day; it took sweating zoo attendants three hours to get him back in stir and they never let him out again...
Such temperature variations, Hess reasoned, ought to stir up the Martian atmosphere as they do the earth's. For proof that they actually do, he turned to observations of the faint white clouds that sometimes drift across the red surface of Mars. The clouds indicated that Mars, like the earth, has "prevailing westerlies" as well as winds circulating around areas of high or low pressure. He thinks that the lot spots are probably "heat lows" like those that often form in summer in the U.S. southwest...