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...slowed down to a case of industrial frost-bite, her leaders joined with peace-planners everywhere in speculation over just what was the matter with the British economy. At the heart the problem was the disturbing possibility of the periodic exhaustion of British resources and morale which could affect the economy of all of western Europe...
...winter air is apt to be full of "supercooled" clouds (below the freezing point). These clouds might, with help, be converted into snow. If it works, G.E.'s effort' to manufacture snowstorms might appreciably affect the U.S. climate...
This type, whom demagogues affect to love, Joyce really loved and loathed, grieved for, impersonated and laughed himself sick over. With Freudian penetration and unFreudian humor, he understood Bloom's mind as a river of non-sequiturs and fantasies of fear, guilt and desire-a gigantic living ragbag, intermittently aware of his fellows, and at the same time tiny, lonely and abandoned in a vast, fearsome universe...
...Freedom for India does not affect the princely states, where 93 million (25%) Indians live. These are more or less despotically ruled by an anachronistic group of princes who have, on the average, 11 titles, 5.8 wives, 12.6 children and 3.4 Rolls-Royces. Sooner or later a free Indian nation will have to deal with them; right now the Communists are advocating expulsion of the princes...
...mixed. By week's end, the Dow-Jones Commodity futures index was down 2.02 points to 117.56, about the same level as in November just before commodity futures joined the general price rise as OPA controls went off. It would take time for the lowered commodity prices to affect most retail prices. But many a retailer was hastening to clear his shelves of high-priced goods...