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Other elements of the American business structure can be expected to awake to the danger before it disturbs their dreams of rosy profits in an expanding economy. First to be hit will be the advertising agencies; except for "Bostitch-staples-are-winning-the-war" ads, brand-name publicity will vanish for the duration. Retailers may feel a distinctly uncomfortable pinch as special discounts for pushing one particular brand are made useless by the disappearance of the conditions which gave rise to them. So far, these groups have not protested loudly. That, however, is not a guarantee of a continued silence...
...nature's strangest mysteries-why, all over the planet, hordes of such rodents pop up out of the earth from time to time. Small, silent, fleet, these musine masses scurry tirelessly among the grasses, destroying grain, trees, any other vegetation they can get their teeth into. Then they vanish from the desolated fields as if they had sunk back again into the earth, which remains sieved with their burrows. Fear of their visitations is age-old: Apollo protected the ancients against them. In North Brabant, Holland, St Gertrude is prayed to as a protectress against mice...
...play itself would be classed somewhat below standards of American comedy, for it has spots where the writing drags, but in production under the fine skill of the director, these parts vanish in laughter. The freshness and frivolity of the performance places it on the "must" list for all who enjoy a laugh...
...King Solomon's loving wife, Balkis the Most Beautiful, saved her lord from the vexatious quarreling of his 999 other wives. As Solomon strolls in his garden he overhears a butterfly & wife quarreling. The butterfly threatens that if he stamps his foot the palace and garden will vanish in a thunderclap. Solomon, amused, calls up his Djinns, enables the butterfly to make good his threat. In the end Solomon is surprised to discover that clever Queen Balkis engineered the whole thing, to silence the 999 quarreling wives...
...Caucasus and through Turkey are also threats to the Indian Ocean and its seaways. The Japanese have narrowed the Axis pincers from the east. If the Axis finally shuts the pincers and controls the Indian Ocean, China's hopes of supplies through Russia and isolated India will vanish; the only remaining feasible routes from the U.S. to the Middle and Near East will be lost. Russia would have to fall back on uncertain, insufficient Arctic routes...