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Luscious License. In Springfield, Ill., State officials, proud of having saved tons of steel by making 1945 Illinois automobile licenses out of a soybean plastic, were chagrined when motorists began complaining that hungry dogs now chase their cars for blocks to get a bite of the tasty new plates...
...fourth transcontinental airline last week. Northwest Airlines got permission from the Civil Aeronautics Board to extend its present route, from Seattle to Milwaukee, all the way to New York, via Detroit. But Northwest's tough, ambitious president, Croil Hunter, 51, will not be able to bite his plum till he can get some six or seven more planes-probably DC-3s at first-to fly the new route. As other transcontinental routes are overloaded, Hunter hopes that this will not take long...
...think this means that if a friend of yours simply by nature is quarrelsome and offensive, and you feel that he would bite you if you should get into difficulty with him, you should look into the situation, and see if that is his nature. If he has been that way always and is incurable, forgive...
...microscopic mites, much like U.S. chiggers, commonly live in the damp ground around the roots of the 10-to 20-foot kunai grass which covers many Southwest Pacific lowlands. After being bitten, a man usually notices nothing wrong for over a week. Then a sore develops at the bite, followed by fever, headache and swollen glands near the bite. Next come a rash, temperatures up to 105°, restlessness or apathy, perhaps delirium, pneumonia (20% of cases), temporary deafness, constipation, bronchitis, vomiting, heart inflammation. It is severe heart damage which causes most of the deaths. In other cases, the fever...
Retiring from his post, Surplus Property Boss Will Clayton last week turned in an accounting, 294 pages long. Its chief news: in four months, the new and still creaking machinery to dispose of surplus war property had got rid of only $85,007,000 worth. This was a fair bite out of the $465,207,000 in surplus property now on hand, including $19,830,000 in motor vehicles (see cut), but hardly a nibble at the mountain of surpluses ahead...