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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to his Summer School and Graduate School posts, Adams is dean of Special Students, Director of the University Extension, and Fulbright Scholarship adviser. No decisions on successors for any of Adams' five posts have yet been made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Quits University Posts for Colorado Job | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...boys haven't even broken a sweat yet," said a wispy reporter for the Glasgow Daily Record. On the floodlit field before him in St. Louis one night last week, commencing a U.S. tour, were $1,000,000 worth of Scottish football (soccer) players, champions of Britain and mythical champions of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unsold in U.S.A. | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Nobody knows exactly why Moscow jams Voice of America broadcasts, yet permits the Russians to listen freely to the voice of Amerika. But Editor Sanders has a hunch. Says she: "We never preach, brag, quarrel or draw invidious comparison^ Ours is not a frontal attack; it is a loYig-range campaign." The campaign's major objective: to cast on Russian minds at least the shadow of a doubt about Communism's superiority. Recently Pravda and Izvestia assailed Amerika. Says Editor Sanders happily: "That means we must be getting read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Voice of Amerika | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Though mosquitoologists have turned up many such fascinating tidbits, they have not yet found what attracts mosquitoes to their human victims. It is not sight, for mosquitoes are almost blind. It is not odor; no odor, human or otherwise, seems to attract mosquitoes. Temperature may have something to do with it. A glass cylinder filled with water at blood heat is often attacked by swarms of hungry mosquitoes. A moist towel heated electrically gets the same attention. Some investigators think mosquitoes are attracted by carbon dioxide in the human breath. But neither theory explains how mosquitoes find their victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mosquito Mysteries | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

There was not yet enough for that. Last year, the nine Government-owned, industry-run synthetic plants turned out only enough cold rubber for U.S. tiremakers to make three cold-rubber tires out of every 100 they sold (customers who got them did not know it). RFC, which has charge of the plants, expects to spend $5,000,000 a year to convert the entire capacity of synthetic plants to cold rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cold War | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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