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...loudest objectors. The cow, they cried, is a delicately balanced creature, yields less milk for defense when her hours are disturbed. The dew, they insisted, stays on the grass until 9 a.m. (10 a.m. daylight saving time), and farmers cannot work their fields until the dew dries. Rising before dawn, they declared, they would be dog-tired long before day's end. Said New York's blue-blood dairyman Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth: "Your net gain is fatigue for the farmer...
...lathe operator for Allis-Chalmers, who rushed to the factory in his full dress and topper from a New Year's party. In a huge Packard factory in Detroit, making parts for Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engines, one good union man, tuxedo-clad, ran his machine through the dawn of the New Year...
...days before Christmas, in a chill grey dawn, a German firing squad lined up on the grounds of France's fort, Vincennes. Here the French had executed famed spies Mata Hari and Bolo Pasha in World War I. But the German guns barked at no enemy spies. Executed were four German officers (two colonels, a major, one of undesignated rank). Since Dec. 1 the Germans had found it necessary to shoot 100 of their soldiers for mutiny. It would take a long time for disaffection to weaken the mighty German Army, but the spirit was spreading...
...honors as top actor of the year (for Sergeant York) with 14 votes on the first ballot. His nearest competitor: Orson (Citizen Kane) Welles, 2. Top actress: Joan Fontaine (for Suspicion). Neck-and-neck with her up to the sixth ballot: Sister Olivia de Havilland (for Hold Back the Dawn). Best Director: John Ford (for How Green Was My Valley)-voted best for the third year running. Welles lost that honor by only two votes...
...night four steatopygous corvettes waddled along off the coast of Newfoundland, ostensibly bound for Britain. But at dawn they hove to off the salmon-pink igneous rockland of St. Pierre & Miquelon, last island remnants of the once-great French Empire in North America...