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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earth Charge. Since 1917 scientists have known that the earth's surface is charged with negative electricity, but no one knew for sure what keeps it charged. In areas of fair weather, an electric current flows between the earth and the air in a direction which would tend to dissipate the charge. It is not much of a current: only about 1,500 amperes, not much more for the entire earth than flows in a few power lines. But the electricity taken from the earth must be restored somehow or the earth's electric charge would soon drain...
Wheat and rye are only superficially similar; they belong to different genera of the grass family. Non-Soviet geneticists believe (on the basis of thousands of experiments) that to make one turn into the other would be as difficult as making a cat give birth to puppies. But such Westerners are neglecting a new factor in genetics: the miracle-passing powers of Joseph Stalin...
...obvious that if Southworth stayed-and his $50,000-a-year contract had three years to run-the Braves would have a reshuffled team. By last week, 13 Braves who had been on Southworth's varsity in May had been traded or sold and half a dozen more were on the block...
...enterprise system than all the crackpots have ever done." To get an explanation, O'Mahoney asked Ben Fairless to appear before a congressional committee right after New Year's. Fairless, who in the past has often had as little to say as Garbo, promptly said that he would "welcome the opportunity" to explain the rise in steel prices...
Rosy Future. Actually, in a free and once more competitive economy, Big Steel had a perfect right to raise its prices. But with the steel shortage over, it might not get away with it. Big Steel's customers certainly would not like the $80 million-a-year increase in their steel bill, especially in the light of steel profits. In the first nine months of 1949, U.S. Steel netted $133 million, 50% more than in the same period in 1948. And so far as Ben Fairless could see last week, the future looked rosy. Operations of Big Steel...