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Show HIGHLIGHTS the week'$ news LEGISLATION: To discourage governmental agencies from issuing directives that do not express the intentions of congress. Rep. Wollcott of Michigan suggested at a committee commit-tee meeting that hereafter all acts when passed have this footnote added: add-ed: "By God, we mean it!" He also proposed that all legislation be written in words of one or two syllables. syl-lables. LARD: Stocks of lard are piling up so fast that there is not sufficient storage space to take care of it and the War Food administration is considering con-sidering diverting some of the cheaper cheap-er grades to soap manufacturers. ROBOT TANKS: Radio-directed tanks, loaded with 1,000 pounds of explosives have been put into operation opera-tion in the Anzio beachhead region in Italy by the Germans. The machines ma-chines were intended to travel into the Allied lines and explode. Instead, most of them were struck by Allied artillery shells and blown up, doing much damage to Nazi positions. . JET PLANES: 'An article in the official publication "Air Force" states that the new jet-propelled planes can travel at least a hundred miles faster than the present propeller-driven planes. This is because air becomes compressible at speeds of 450 miles per hour, and the effect becomes apparent on the propeller. The jet-driven plane is not bothered by this phenomenon. DIVORCE: Reno, Nev., divorce courts dissolved 404 marriages in February, the largest number for that month since the six week residence resi-dence law was enacted 14 years ago. Last February's total was 285, and the previous high was 246 in 1932. Total decrees since the year began were 764, compared with 515 for the first two months of 1943. TIRES: A new procass for joining join-ing layers of synthetic rubber has been perfected. It vill be employed first in making tires for heavy bombers. bomb-ers. It reduces this process from 10 hours to 10 minutes. |