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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...industry expanded, but not enough. Soon outsiders were creeping in-with no better results. G. M. went painfully into chicken-feed production with its liquid-cooled Allison. Packard bravely took the $125,000,000 British Rolls-Royce order that Henry Ford turned down. In November, Ford himself, who had earlier talked of 1,000 planes a day, took a $122,000,000 order for Pratt & Whitney Double Wasps. His engineers went to Hartford to find out how to make them...
Charlie, Harry, Russell & Co. have done the job so well that Hollywood is now considered the third largest news source in the U. S. More than 400 reporters, from matter-of-fact A. P. to Paul-Prying fan magazines, now scavenge Hollywood for tidbits to feed millions of readers. To keep them happy, Hollywood studios maintain vast publicity departments filled with smooth-writing ex-reporters, quick-smiling "contact men," expert photographers, menial flunkeys...
Meanwhile the Australian Government sent agents to the Americas to see what the prickly pear's natural enemies were. The agents investigated about 150 insects that feed on cactus and nothing else, set a few of the most promising to work in Australia. By far the most potent destroyer proved to be a little moth borer, Cactoblastis cactorum. The larvae of this insect eat the inside of the pear plant, even the roots, and their depredations promote rotting due to bacteria and fungi. Armed with strings of moth borer eggs glued to strips of paper, fieldworkers swarmed through prickly...
Recently two enthusiasts were persuaded to feed each other chunks of blueberry pie while blindfolded, making appropriate dinner-table chitchat as they went along. Another client was ordered to put a birdcage over his head, sing Listen to the Mocking Bird. More terrifying was the experience of a gentleman who had to lie on a bed sheet in the middle of the studio stage and pretend to be a male seal wooing his mate. To add zest to his performance, a real seal was quietly placed beside him which barked happily down his neck. For thinking up such consequences, listeners...
...United Kingdom has more than a million horses on its farms, eating each year the produce of five million acres. If horses were replaced by tractors, these acres would feed four million people, free 2,000 ships now used to carry foodstuffs, make Britain almost independent of food imports. Number of ships necessary to take Britain tractors from...