Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inconclusive experiments, Hunt & Co. trained batches of rats to sleep most of the time. This was not hard to do. If laboratory rats are put singly in small, comfortable pens and given plenty of food, water and light, they soon go to sleep. Ordinary noise does not usually wake them, and they do not mind wearing electrodes for measuring their heart action...
Fujita pored over charts captured at Wake Island, spent the Pacific crossing reviewing plans, writing a will, cleaning his service pistol in case the mission failed and he had to kill himself. Off Oregon, the pilot had to wait a week for suitable catapulting weather. When it came, he made one 2½-hr. bombing run by daylight, a second 20 days later in the dark. Three of his bombs were duds; the fourth started a small blaze that was quickly spotted and doused by forest rangers. The raid made headlines in Japan, but Fujita got no promotion, no bonus...
...those of a year ago. Bethlehem gained nearly 400% to $39 million. Inland more than 100% to $17 million and U.S. Steel 75% to $56 million. But few steel companies came even within shouting distance of their profits in first-quarter 1960, when steel users bought avidly in the wake of a 116-day strike. And steelmen cautioned that their earnings will surely lag during the current quarter as their customers use up swollen inventories...
...Overriding Issue. The one somber theme that cropped up at most of last week's meetings had to do not with dividends or profits but with the uneasy relationship between business and Government in the wake of the steel price battle...
...largest deficit in Jubilee history faces this year's Freshman Jubilee Committee in the wake of the weekend's festivities. Poor attendance at Friday night's Weavers concert and at the Jubilee as a whole combined to produce the $1000 loss...