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When Mother Earth's skin creeps, it usually creeps all over. Observatories all over the world reported that their seismographs had kicked up. In the California coast range, an earthquake woke sleepers. In South Africa's rich Rand, 25 tremors sent natives running for the countryside. Bolsena, near Rome, felt four shocks, and Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras all reported quakes...
Antarctician Richard Evelyn Byrd managed to spend Christmas in a publicity-worthy manner: he wirelessed that he and his men aboard North Star crossed the international date line during the night of Dec. 24, woke up on the morning...
Seventeen and three-quarters pounds of owl flesh, genus bubonibae, were perched comfortably on Sophomore Harold T. Blaine's couch when he woke up in his Leverett House lodgings early yesterday morning. The creature flopped its wings ominously when Blaine approached it and chased him from the room...
Ponderous is German bureaucracy. State officials were soon being called on the phone by hundreds of people. Apparently no one woke up to the fact that the Reich's war-will was being rapidly undermined. Finally, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop rushed to the Führer. It was not until 12:30, the hour when the Berlin station had been scheduled to go back on the air anyhow, that an official denial was broadcast from the Reich Chancellery itself-that is, from Adolf Hitler's own headquarters, which never before had stooped to deny a public rumor...
Another difficulty the British have had to overcome-they have done so with amazing rapidity-is their slow rate of plane production. It was in 1936 that Britain finally woke up to the appalling state of her Air Force. At the end of last year Britain was producing only about 200 planes a month, but by last week they had almost achieved a rate of 1,000 per month, bade fair to overtake the German rate soon...