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Starting at Home. The Judge has added to his store of knowledge about human nature in these three years. He watched witnesses squirm before him, torn by loyalty to crooked friends, by the desire to save their own hides. He noticed a queer phenomenon: some turned wringing wet with sweat, others parched so that their skin peeled. He believes that all were relieved when they finally told the truth. Under the glass top of his desk he kept a Walter Scott couplet for all to read and ponder: Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice...
...cannot reveal. But numerous possibilities are implied in its numerous merits; it is: 1) light- 14-16 yards per lb., against woven cotton's 6¼ yards; 2) cheap-basic price about 4? a yard (comparable to the price of gauze); 3) easily sterilized, highly absorbent, stronger when wet than dry; 4) easy to produce-can be turned out ten times faster than loomed yardage; 5) better than the finest-weave fabric as a vehicle for acid-resistant, waterproof or fireproof coatings-because it contains no interstices at all. Where Masslinn will fit into the post war cotton-goods...
When he first wet-blanketed installment sales last summer (TIME, Aug. 25), FRB Chairman Marriner Eccles warned that there would be "further dampening." Last week Mr. Eccles got out his wet blanket again and dropped it on the U.S. consumer. But, like most of Washington's anti-inflation gestures, this one really soaked nobody but the rich...
...experienced it in 1917-18. As mile after mile of tall timber was reduced last week to black stumps the Forest Service schemed to prevent any more Axis-scorched earth in the U.S. Throughout the Pacific Coast's 91,940,000 acres of timberland an abnormally wet winter and spring have nourished lush, thick vegetation, highly inflammable once it dries. Men were already in training in Washington State's breadbasket to fight grain fires in June...
...young men had taken off their shirts to keep them from getting wet by the rain. And now a Man was helping them keep themselves from getting wet by the rain. He was leading the waving of arms. First the Man would wave his arms. Then the neat young men would wave their arms. Then the Man would decide his fingers were getting wet. He wriggled them. The young men wriggled theirs. The Man wanted to shake the rain out of his eyes. He wriggled his neck. The young men wriggled their necks. And thus all the young men stood...