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Toxic ammo of the anti-fly movement is good new DDT, which will be sprayed on cattle, barns, downtown restaurants, garbage pails, old-fashioned outhouses. But the state authorities warn that DDT alone will not make Iowa flyless. Flies breed in any sort of decaying organic matter. Eggs hatch and adult flies develop in about eight days. DDT will kill flies, but only strict sanitation will keep the fly reserves from mounting a counteroffensive...
...presence of large masses of raindrops is a strong indication of turbulence. A plane equipped with the proper radar can steer a safe course, even at night, among a herd of thunderstorms. The Weather Bureau's radar can spot a storm as far away as 100 miles, and warn planes to steer clear...
...Crown's sole positive duty is now "to consult, to encourage and to warn." But the King can still-theoretically-without consulting Parliament, disband his country's Army, sell all the Navy's ships, dismiss most of the civil servants, pardon all criminals, close all churches, create every citizen a peer, pick his own Prime Minister, and declare war on anyone he chooses. In practice, no King-or Queen-would dare do one of these things...
...record-breaking 5,800 graduates. The effort almost knocked them flat on their backs. Last week many of the schools, admitting that they were in serious financial distress, issued an urgent S.O.S. The presidents of 19 universities embracing the nation's top medical schools* solemnly declared: "We warn our fellow citizens that without their prompt and generous aid, our medical schools . . . cannot be expected to safeguard the future health of American citizens and their children...
...Franklin Roosevelt had no more bitter foe at home, he had no more ardent supporter abroad. Douglas was one of the first to warn against the rise of Hitlerism. He went back into Government service, first as Lend-Lease expediter in London, then as Deputy War Shipping Administrator. As London's News...