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...Animal Kingdom. In San Francisco, Lief Croch tried to rid his apartment of mice by setting out crackers, spreading poison on every third one. The mice ate all the unpoisoned crackers, left all the others. Lief gathered them up despondently, fell to munching, soon went to the hospital. In New Britain, Conn., Eleanor Borg went up a tree after a stranded kitten, which presently scurried down by itself. It required firemen with ladders to get Eleanor down...
...Washington, Maxon tried to make OPA popular even with businessmen. He reasoned: if OPA could only be rid of all its "slide-rule boys" and economic theorists, the agency would function smoothly. He did help force the resignation...
...bylaw which prohibits member papers from giving their own local news to anyone but A. P. ; 2) to annul the bylaws restricting membership in A.P.; 3) to cancel the contract which gives A. P. and Canadian Press the exclusive right to each other's news; 4) to get rid of Wide World Photos, whose picture service is available only to A. P. members...
...cute brunette. You ask her to dance. She accepts with a charming smile and a "lasso" gleam. Now try to get rid of her for that terrific blonde who just walked in. See what I mean? It's a little more difficult than Radar, isn't it? There, you can always turn the dial or something--but now you'se stuck. Congress says...
...planners study meteorology and meteorologists study city planning, but at best he thinks cities of the future may be made only a few degrees cooler in summer, a few degrees warmer in winter. The most practical step cities can now take toward weather control, says he, is to get rid of their smoke (perhaps by underground smoke tunnels). So doing, they would get more ultraviolet radiation, better visibility, fewer fogs, probably less rain...