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...Despite popular apprehension, there is no evidence that a wartime temperature of 65 degrees Farenheit in the home, office, or school will affect the health of persons who dress properly," Constantin P. Yaglou, associate professor of Industrial Hygiene, said yesterday afternoon at the weekly Harvard public medical lecture at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Auditorium...
...press had warned the people of something they already knew-this, more than any Congress heretofore, was a session of destiny. Historic Congresses of the past had held in their hands the fate of the Nation; the deliberations of this Congress would affect the state of the world and the shape of the future for generations. Over all legislators, short or tall, laconic or garrulous, thoughtful or frivolous, hung a crushing responsibility. They must help prosecute the war-they perhaps might help to write the peace...
Last week, as if symbolizing this momentous change, which may affect U.S. industry long after World War II is over, the Society of Chemical Industry gave its top award, the Perkin Medal, not to a leader of an established chemical firm like Carbide, Monsanto or Du Pont, but to Dr. Robert Erastus Wilson, head of Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co., a subsidiary of Standard...
...reaching cut in airline passenger fares was announced jointly this week by giant amphibious Pan American Airways and its scrappy, up-&-coming offshoot, Pan American-Grace Airways. The cuts average 10%, affect all flights between the U.S. and Latin America, will save 500,000-odd Pan Am-Panagra customers $1,250,000 yearly. Sample cuts: Miami to Buenos Aires $550 to $495; Miami-Lima $354 to $320; Miami-Bogota $213 to $183. The new rates will become effective whenever the airlines get CAB approval (probably two months...
...gravitational pull of the earth and the counterpull of the sun Si moon, which produce ocean tides, would logically also affect dry land...