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...Floods, No Smog. The air had been fairly well cleared of smoke-Pittsburghers were sharply aware of that. There was 39% more sunlight: a white shirt could be worn decently a whole day. Locomotives were allowed by law to give off nothing worse than No. 2 smoke (not as white as No. 1, but not nearly as black as No. 4). Householders were forced to burn smokeless fuel. When fog settled over Pittsburgh, it was no longer smog...
...Wallpaper. After years of patching and making-do, the little church had finally had a major overhauling. As he arrived to lead the rededication service, the Rev. Samuel W. Robinson, superintendent of the 110 churches in the Methodists' Vmcennes District, could hardly believe his eyes. Sunlight gleamed on freshly waxed pews and on baskets of asters, zinnias and chrysanthemums. There were new cream-colored walls, a sturdy upright piano, and new runners on the aisles. Crisp new hymnals filled the racks...
Plaster walls have been painted with a view to the light-reflecting and eye-resting qualities of the color's used. North-side rooms have yellow walls to maximize sunlight, while in the other living quarters the conventional plain ivory has been supplanted by pastel grey, green, and blue...
...seconds later, a radio signal from the control room exploded a small charge and blew off the rocket's nose. Unstream-lined by separation, the parts tumbled over & over. As they fell toward the earth, observers saw silvery flashes of sunlight reflected from aluminum. Dust rose from the desert, and back from eight miles away came a muffled sound of an alcohol-oxygen explosion...
...over the unclean refuse with our foot. What a swarming there is beneath it, what a tumult of busy workers! The Silphae,* with wing cases wide and dark, as though in mourning, flee distraught, hiding in the cracks in the soil; the Saprini,* of polished ebony which mirrors the sunlight, jog hastily off, deserting their workshop; the Dermestes,* of whom one wears a fawn-colored tippet flecked with white, seek to fly away, but, tipsy with the putrid nectar, tumble over and reveal the immaculate whiteness of their bellies, which forms a violent contrast with the gloom of the rest...