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...will have the same number). Then follows lottery day, when a suitable dignitary (Franklin Roosevelt, for instance) will reach into the same glass bowl from which the first World War I number (258) was drawn in 1917, will pull out one of thousands of jumbled capsules. Each capsule will contain a numbered slip. Registrants holding the drawn numbers will be the first to receive detailed questionnaires, probing into every aspect of jobs, dependents, special qualifications, reasons (if any) for requesting exemption. Other lotteries will follow...
...have ever been seen, scientists have measured many of them, and can identify them by pattern, in much the same way as a blind man knows the shape of his furniture by groping around. Viruses are measured in several different ways. One is to strain a substance known to contain a virus (like sap from a diseased plant) through a filter with pores of submicroscopic size. The smallest virus, that of foot-and-mouth disease, is ten-millionths of a millimeter in diameter...
...authors really buckled down in earnest last week to a new project-WPA Factbooks. The Fact-books are supposed to be completed in 18 months, will sell for about $1, will be bound in durable but removable covers so that more facts can be added yearly. They will contain concrete and succinct data about whatever localities may wish to sponsor the Factbook project. Among other facts will be summaries of the work of the New Deal agencies-pretty good propaganda for the New Deal, quibblers pointed out, if it is still around by the time the first Factbook is published...
...vague something called Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Secretary. Winston Churchill brought him downstairs again as one of his key advisers. Last week, as the French colonial armies and fleet joined the Petain Government in surrender (see p. 32) 59-year-old Sir Robert could no longer contain his sorrow. He expressed it, as many an Englishman would, in a letter to the London Times. The letter was a poem whose title embraced the years of the Entente Cordiale...
...Yard, engineers tested fluorescent buoys to be used as markers for alighting seaplanes. Having no hot filaments to burn out, fluorescent lamps (coated inside with powders which shine by electrical agitation) are durable as well as efficient. The buoy lamps are carried on inflated floats shaped like doughnuts, which contain short-wave radio receivers so that the lamps can be turned on & off by remote control from shore...