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Most U.S. termites eat deadwood. They have the almost unique power of digesting cellulose. Hence, unlike most animals, they have little natural competition to check their increase. Most insects depend upon a seasonal food supply, and their life cycles allow them only brief intervals to feed and breed. Termites almost never stop eating...
Herbert Hoover signed a manifesto in August 1941, which said: "Freedom in America does not depend on the outcome of struggles for material power between other nations...
...Secretary Anthony Eden quietly told the House of Commons that Great Britain and Russia had signed a 20-year alliance, for war and for peace. It was the first post-war treaty of World War II, and, as such, would write future history. The nature of that history would depend on the present sincerity and the future wisdom of the two nations which signed...
...would also depend on another announcement made the same day at the White House: the U.S. and Russia had agreed "with regard to the urgent tasks" of a European second front this year. For, unless the U.S., Britain and Russia defeat Hitler's Germany, post-war alliances mean nothing...
...every purchase of motor fuel must be accompanied by an exchange of coupons. Total sales for each station could then be easily checked against the number of coupons clipped. Some such arrangement, if adopted, would mean that New England's chances of having gas next fall need not depend on the activities of petty racketeers...