For the period from October 20th to February 16th. Prepared by
ALVIN C. EURICH, Stanford University
and ELMO C. WILSON, University of Minnesota
Co-Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test
for the American Council on Education
(Copyright, 1942, by Time Inc.)
EXPLANATION
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DIRECTIONS
For each of the questions five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the question's number.
Example: 0. The President of the U.S. is (1 Willkie,
2 Roosevelt, 3 Wheeler, 4 Nelson, 5 Wallace).
Roosevelt is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 2--standing for Roosevelt--has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.
THE HOME FRONT
1. "A date which will live in infamy," said President Roosevelt of the day Japanese bombers swooped down on Pearl Harbor. You ought to know that the date was:
1. Dec. 4.
2. Dec. 9.
3. Nov. 27.
4. Dec. 7.
5. Dec. 11.
2. For weeks President Roosevelt had worked over peace terms with the Jap envoys, and in a final effort had publicly:
1. Suggested that Premier Tojo come to Washington.
2. Appealed to Emperor Hirohito--but got no answer.
3. Agreed to unfreeze Japanese assets in the U.S.
4. Urged China to end her war with Japan.
5. Asked repeal of the Japanese Exclusion Act.
3. The next day Congress declared war on Japan, and two days later also declared war on Germany and Italy:
1. Who then declared war on us.
2. And Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary.
3. After Churchill asked us to.
4. After isolationists filibustered to prevent it.
5. Who had first declared war on us.
4. The real extent of the damage at Pearl Harbor remained a mystery, although Secretary Knox revealed that actual ships destroyed were:
1. Four battleships, one cruiser and seven destroyers.
2. Two battleships, three cruisers and eleven destroyers.
3. One battleship, one target training ship, one mine layer and three destroyers.
4. Two battleships, a training ship, four destroyers.
5. One battleship, three submarines, five cruisers.
5. A month later a board of inquiry under Justice Roberts placed the blame for the disaster on:
1. Admiral Kimmel and Lieut. General Short.
2. Faulty FBI work.
3. Breakdown of airplane detectors.
4. General Martin and Admiral Hart.
5. Diversion of ships and supplies to England.
6. Congress had meanwhile voted to President Roosevelt the power to do all but one of the following:
1. Reorganize Government departments.
2. Establish censorship.
3. Take over alien property.
4. Write war contracts without competitive bidding.
5. Suspend the writ of habeas corpus.
7. With hardly an argument, Congress also passed a bill extending draft registration ages to:
1. 21-36.
2. 18-65.
3. 18-45.
4. 21-35.
5. 18-40.
8. Old squabbles were silenced and all but one of the following happened in isolationist circles:
1. The "America First" Committee dissolved.
2. John L. Lewis said, "Every American must rally to the nation's support."
3. Laura Ingalls took a responsible position in O.C.D.
4. The Army Air Corps accepted Lindbergh's services.
5. Senator Wheeler said we should beat hell out of the Japs.
9. Such Congressional unity was in sharp contrast to the 212-194 vote last November when the House finally:
1. Approved the occupation of Iceland.
2. Added $5,956,786,452 to Lend-Lease funds.
3. Authorized naval and air bases in Ireland.
4. Authorized arming of merchantmen and opening of war zones.
5. Extended selectees' terms one year only.
10. But even last fall America's march toward war was signalled by all but one of the following:
1. The Reuben James was sunk by a Nazi submarine.
2. American troops occupied Surinam.
3. The U.S. took Martinique.
4. Russia got a billion dollars of Lend-Lease aid.
5. 11 U.S. merchant ships were sunk by the Nazis.
GRAND STRATEGY
11. Just before Christmas Winston Churchill suddenly appeared, made one of his greatest speeches before Congress but did not say:
1. "We will not be able to reveal all that happens during the momentous months ahead."
2. "Disappointments and unpleasant surprises await us."
3. "If we had kept together after the last war . . . this need never have fallen upon us."
4. "1943 will enable us to assume the initiative."
5. "The lifeline of supplies . . . is flowing steadily and freely in spite of the enemy."
12. And from his strategy conferences with President Roosevelt came the dramatic announcement that:
1. 100,000 American troops were in Australia.
2. 47 nations had accepted the Atlantic Charter.
3. Jap cities would soon be "bombed and bombed again."
4. We would anticipate Hitler-occupy Irish bases.
5. 26 nations pledged their resources in the fight against the Axis.
13. Soon afterwards the White House announced a unified command of all allied forces in the South Pacific under:
1. MacArthur.
2. Wavell.
3. Admiral King.
4. Pownall.
5. Chiang Kaishek.
PROGRESS
14. "We will hit them and hit them again," said President Roosevelt in his "State of the Nation" address in which he promised an A.E.F. and set our production goal for 1942 at 45,000 tanks and:
1. 20,000 planes.
2. 40,000 planes.
3. 80,000 planes.
4. 60,000 planes.
5. 100,000 planes.
15. And the next day he sent to Congress a budget calling for total expenditures in 1943 of:
1. $59 billion.
2. $9 billion.
3. $29 billion.
4. $49 billion.
5. $109 billion.
16. Of this amount the President suggested that Congress should raise by taxation almost:
1. 1/5
2. 1/3
3. 1/2
4. 2/3
5. 3/4
17. But even this super-budget was upped within a month when Congress made the biggest appropriation of all time, giving the Navy:
1. $9 billion.
2. $31 billion.
3. $21 1/2 billion.
4. $39 1/2 billion.
5. $26 1/2 billion.
18. Finally, after long ignoring public demand for one responsible production head, the President appointed Donald Nelson to the job and gave him:
1. Most of Baruch's World War I powers.
2. The combined powers of OPM and OPA--and no more.
3. The power and title of Lieutenant General.
4. Carte blanche.
5. More power than Baruch ever had.
19. OPM was abolished and in one month Nelson did all but one of the following:
1. Stopped all auto production.
2. Gave Ernest Kanzler the job of converting auto plants to defense work.
3. Cleared $11 billion worth of defense contracts.
4. Put heavy penalties on dishonesty and profiteering in defense work.
5. Demanded day to day reports on the output of each defense plant.
20. Tires and autos were rationed first--and then sugar was rationed, which was growing scarce, but not because of:
1. Use in munitions making.
2. Failure of American beet sugar crops.
3. Lend-Lease shipments to England and Russia.
4. Hoarding.
5. Decrease in shipments from Hawaii and Philippines.
21. The President signed the Price Control Bill but made the inflationary farm-price provisions inserted by Congress ineffective when he:
1. Said Government-held surpluses could be used by all Government departments.
2. Vetoed them.
3. Concluded a new import agreement with Canada.
4. Ordered Price Boss Henderson to ignore them.
5. Suspended all farm subsidies.
22. The House voted $100,000,000 to the Office of Civilian Defense with the proviso that:
1. Eleanor Roosevelt resign as Assistant Director.
2. None of it be spent on fan dancers.
3. Baseball Czar Landis should not be made Director.
4. LaGuardia choose between his two big jobs.
5. It give up plans to make Dumbo a modern Yankee Doodle.
23. And even though the budget called for $7,500,000,000 for all Lend-Lease purposes, Congress specifically allocated to China:
1. 2,000 tons of American rubber in Sydney.
2. 12 American gunboats on Chinese rivers.
3. $500,000,000 for currency stabilization.
4. 5,000 tons of wheat to make up for rice failures.
5. 200 Flying Fortresses with pilots.
LABOR
24. All but one of these things were true of last fall's biggest labor-industry fight over the union shop in captive coal mines:
1. Lewis demanded it; steelmen said no.
2. The Mediation Board refused to recommend it.
3. The President warned he would never force it on anyone.
4. The whole UMW struck for 10 days to get it.
5. Roosevelt's Arbitration Board ordered it.
25. Mad at strikes, strikers, and John L. Lewis:
1. Four members of the NDMB resigned in protest.
2. C.I.O. President Philip Murray attacked Lewis' attitude on defense.
3. A Senate Committee recommended Lewis be deported along with Bridges.
4. Roosevelt asked for repeal of the Wagner Act.
5. The House passed a stringent anti-strike bill.
26. When war came the President called a labor-industry conference which agreed on all but one of the following:
1. No extension of the closed shop for the duration.
2. No strikes for the duration.
3. No lockouts for the duration.
4. Mandatory conciliation, mediation, arbitration of all disputes.
5. A War Labor Board to handle disputes.
27. When John L. Lewis proposed A.F.L. and C.I.O. get together President Roosevelt:
1. Urged that it be brought about at once.
2. Said he "feared Greeks bearing gifts."
3. Opposed the plan, set up a six man A.F.L.-C.I.O. Committee to consult with him.
4. Suggested Lewis head a unified labor movement.
5. Warned that monopoly might result.
28. The conviction of stagehand leaders Bioff and Browne was a personal victory for graft-hating columnist:
1. Westbrook Pegler.
2. Robert S. Allen.
3. Walter Lippmann.
4. Walter Winchell.
5. Hugh S. Johnson.
HERE AND THERE
29. Only network to take the Government's side in the current broadcasters' battle is:
1. NBC Red.
2. Mutual.
3. The recently separated NBC Blue.
4. Yankee.
5. Columbia.
30. The leadership of the Chicago Tribune was challenged for the first time in years by Marshall Field and his:
1. Globe.
2. Times.
3. McCormick Reaper.
4. Sun.
5. News.
31. A week after the Normandie burned and turned over people were still wondering how officials could have:
1. Removed the struts holding her erect to facilitate the firefighting.
2. Failed to muster more than one fire boat.
3. Let 111 of the 1,500 workers get trapped and killed.
4. Let people go aboard for a 50-c- Naval Relief fee.
5. Exercised only the most superficial surveillance over the workers aboard.
32. Attorney-General Biddle took the most drastic step yet against our 3,516,947 enemy aliens when he:
1. Suspended the citizenship rights of their children.
2. Ordered them to evacuate 135 areas by Feb. 24.
3. Subjected them to a 9 p.m. curfew law.
4. Put those in California into concentration camps.
5. Deprived them of radios, cars and telephones.
WORLD BATTLEFRONTS
ELEVENTH HOUR
33. In their darkest hour since Dunkirk, Churchill spoke to the British, announced the fall of Singapore and:
1. Called the escape of the Nazi fleet "inexcusable."
2. Pointedly failed to mention recent Red victories.
3. Said Pearl Harbor had not seriously crippled the U. S. Fleet.
4. Revealed the Mediterranean was now closed to Allied shipping.
5. Claimed Port Darwin was a "second Singapore, identical in fleet facilities and fire power."
WAR IN THE PACIFIC
34. Even as Pearl Harbor burned the Japs attacked the Philippines, where by January's end all but one of these things had happened:
1. The Japs landed at many points along the coast.
2. They bombed and captured Manila after it was declared an open city.
3. General MacArthur successfully concentrated his forces, withdrew to Bataan.
4. His guns at Corregidor controlled Manila Bay.
5. He held Davao where a relieving force could land.
35. And heroes all were a tiny band of Marines who called for "more Japs" as they beat off powerful assaults in an epic but unsuccessful defense of:
1. Wake.
2. Yap.
3. Samoa.
4. Hilo.
5. Timor.
36. While to the West a gallant force held out for three weeks under an overwhelming Jap attack against:
1. Shanghai.
2. Hainan.
3. Penang.
4. Hong Kong.
5. Rangoon.
37. The Japs had immediately invaded Thailand where:
1. The British were already entrenched.
2. They killed the Premier, set up a Quisling.
3. The country fell after five hours of token fighting.
4. They were only 14 miles from the Burma Road.
5. They made contact with their Fifth Army in China.
38. Then as they struck south through Malaya and besieged Singapore, all but one of these things happened:
1. The Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk.
2. The British used only native troops in the jungles.
3. They toasted the earth instead of scorching it.
4. In nine weeks the Japs advanced 400 miles.
5. Jap troops continually landed behind the defenders' lines.
THE THEATERS OF WAR
Directions: The statements below identify scenes of recent war developments which are located on either of these two maps. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each statement) the number which correctly locates the place or event described.
39. Scene of first great U. S. naval triumph of the war.
40. Where an army of 100,000 still fights the Nazis in occupied Europe.
41. Russia's "dagger pointed at the heart of Japan."
42. Port Darwin.
43. Precariously neutral nation still receiving Lend-Lease aid.
44. Island fortress protecting the rear of the U. S. troops in Bataan.
45. Port which has changed hands four times in the last twelve months.
46. Changsha: where Chinese troops turned a fourth Japanese attack into a great Chinese victory.
47. On February 1st Russia had pushed the Nazis back past this point.
48. First U. S. territory conquered by the Japs.
49. In the first move of a campaign to protect their rear and destroy the bases from which U. S. flyers were spectacularly defending the Burma Road the Japs:
1. Lost two divisions in a drive on Bangkok.
2. Occupied and sacked Mandalay.
3. Had Anglophile King U Saw assassinated.
4. Took 150,000 tons of Chungking-destined steel.
5. Took Moulmein.
50. The plucky Dutch had been active from the start and:
1. Sank Jap ships steadily (54 in 54 days).
2. Reinforced the British in Malaya with 30,000 men.
3. Successfully invaded the Jap island of Rota.
4. Disclosed that they had slipped the Dutch battleship Wilhelmina hrough Hitler's hands to Surabaya.
5. Sent three cruisers to shell the coast of Formosa.
51. But in mid-January Japan struck at the Indies, indispensable to her for all but one of these reasons:
1. They have rich supplies of oil and metal.
2. They furnish us much of our rubber and tin.
3. Near Amboina is the world-famous Iron Knob, containing 100,000,000 tons of aboveground ore.
4. From them Japan could raid the supply lines of Suez and India.
5. They command a 3,300 mile short cut from the U. S. to the Burma Road.
52. And then on Jan. 23 a great Japanese invasion fleet sailed into the Strait of Macassar and:
1. Laid siege to Australia's Port Darwin.
2. Landed a huge force on oil-rich Sarawak.
3. Met and sank Japan's third British battleship.
4. Was met and scattered by the U. S. Navy.
5. Occupied the great Dutch Naval base at Surabaya.
53. A week later the U. S. Navy:
1. Said it had withdrawn all ships to Hawaii.
2. Admitted such damage at Pearl Harbor that it could not mount an offensive action for six months.
3. Successfully raided Jap bases on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands.
4. With crowds cheering, sailed into Canberra Harbor.
5. Announced U. S. submarines had sunk 26 Jap ships in ten days off Tokyo Bay.
54. As war came ever closer to India Prophet Gandhi:
1. Was defeated as head of the India National Congress Party by Nehru.
2. Resigned--and Jawaharlal Nehru became leader.
3. Asked all India to abandon nonviolence.
4. Said Hitler could be no worse than Churchill.
5. Told Indians to fight now, worry about independence later.
55. With all Australia angered and endangered by the unexpected weakness of Britain's Far Eastern defenses, Prime Minister Curtin:
1. Won a non-voting seat in Britain's War Cabinet.
2. Demanded Churchill's resignation.
3. Threatened a separate peace.
4. Said Britain could better afford to abandon Egypt than Australia.
5. Said Australia would rather be a U. S. dominion than a British.
56. Big question in the Far East, "What will Russia do?", was answered by Ambassador Litvinoff, who said Russia:
1. Would not declare war but would open her airfields to American bombers.
2. Would keep her non-aggression pact with Japan.
3. Would attack Japan as soon as she received more American supplies.
4. Was already at war with Japan in Siberia.
5. Would concentrate on the main job--beating Hitler.
WAR IN EUROPE
57. On the eastern front things went so well for the Nazis that by late November the Russians still held only one of these cities:
1. Rostov.
2. Kerch.
3. Sevastopol.
4. Kharkov.
5. Kalinin.
58. And the British concentrated in the Southern Caucasus, fearful that a breakthrough would put the Nazis in position to do all but one of the following:
1. Take the Baku oilfields.
2. Threaten Russia's southern lifeline.
3. Squeeze Suez from the East.
4. Capture the 25% of Russia's industry near the Caspian.
5. Threaten Iran's oilfields.
59. On the central front the Nazis advanced so rapidly that:
1. They completely surrounded Moscow.
2. The Government (but not Stalin) moved to Kuibyshev.
3. Stalin declared Moscow an open city.
4. With the Finns they took Moscow's suburbs.
5. Most of Moscow's workers were evacuated.
60. But in late November Russia counterattacked and in a month all but one of these things happened:
1. The Nazis were driven out of Kharkov.
2. Goebbels warned Germany of possible defeat.
3. In some quarters German retreats became routs.
4. German communiques admitted strategic withdrawals.
5. Hitler announced his armies were "stationary."
61. Shortly after Hitler fired No. 1 General von Brauchitsch and took the job himself, it was announced that Field Marshal von Reichenau:
1. Had been demoted and sent back to Germany.
2. Had been court-martialed and shot.
3. Had died of apoplexy.
4. Had been appointed Hitler's adjutant.
5. Was to replace General Rommel in Libya.
62. And by mid-February the Nazis had:
1. Been cleared out of the Crimea.
2. Lost both Kiev and Odessa.
3. Abandoned Latvia and Estonia.
4. Lost their ally Finland, who made a separate peace.
5. Been driven 100 miles back from Moscow.
63. To the names of General Mud, General Winter and General Dissatisfaction the Nazis had to add General Louse, a major enemy because he:
1. Smuggled messages across the line.
2. Spread smallpox all along the front.
3. Laid maggots in German food supplies.
4. Spread typhus among whole divisions.
5. Devoured Nazi winter uniforms.
64. The extent of French collaboration with Germany was signaled by the forced resignation in November of North African Proconsul:
1. Weygand.
2. Robert.
3. Huntziger.
4. Darlan.
5. Deat.
65. Meanwhile all Europe rumbled with revolt, which the Nazis tried to put down in Occupied France chiefly by:
1. Letting elected Committees police the area.
2. Executing French prisoners of war inside Germany.
3. Sending thousands to die in Poland.
4. Relaxing their unbearably stringent regulations.
5. Executing many men not known to be implicated.
66. Another thorn in Hitler's side was a series of daring raids neatly executed by the Commandos:
1. Free French irregulars.
2. Slang for the American Eagle Squadron.
3. Norwegian airmen trained in England.
4. British shock troops.
5. Serbian mountain troops.
67. Though Britain's sea losses last summer and fall were but one-third of last spring's, the Battle of the Atlantic entered a grave new stage in January when:
1. Experts estimated 450 subs were in our waters.
2. 42 U. S. ships were torpedoed off our shores.
3. 11 U. S. ships were sunk along our eastern coast.
4. Practically all of the U. S. Atlantic Fleet was transferred to the Pacific.
5. A new Nazi Gaussing torpedo was reported in use.
WAR IN AFRICA
68. In November the British started their long-heralded drive into Libya and by year's end had:
1. Taken nearly all Cyrenaica.
2. Laid siege to Tripoli.
3. Relieved Tobruk, then were driven back.
4. Advanced as far as Derna and were stopped.
5. Taken 80,000 Italian and 5,000 German prisoners.
69. All but one of these things were true of this campaign:
1. American-built planes and tanks played an important part in it.
2. Italian forces again proved ineffective.
3. British fleet disrupted Axis supply lines.
4. The drive took only two-thirds as long as Wavell's.
5. France still refused to let the Axis use Tunisia.
70. Then the British took Salum and "Hellfire" Pass, and six weeks later:
1. They were threatening Tripoli.
2. The Nazis had counter-attacked--captured Bengasi.
3. The last Axis tank surrendered at Msus and Derna.
4. They combined near el Agheila with 30,000 Free French troops from Libreville.
5. They had fortified their position west of Bengasi.
PAN AMERICA
71. Announced in November was the U. S.-Mexican trade agreement which provided for all but one of these:
1. The U. S. to buy 6,000,000 ounces of Mexican silver a month.
2. Mexico to buy 800,000 bushels of American wheat.
3. Mexico to pay off all U. S. claims except oil claims.
4. U. S. oil claims to be settled by one U. S.-one Mexican-appointed appraiser.
5. The U. S. to put up $40,000,000 to stabilize the peso.
72. Assembled at Rio, delegates of all the Western Hemisphere nations orated, objected, argued, finally agreed all their governments:
1. "Would immediately declare war on the Axis."
2. "Could not continue diplomatic relations with Japan, Germany and Italy."
3. "Recommend the rupture of their diplomatic relations with Japan, Germany and Italy."
4. "Promise every aid to the U. S. and accord it a status of non-belligerence."
5. "Feel that each Republic must decide for itself what role it is going to play in this war."
73. Not on the agenda but an accomplishment of the Conference was the settlement of a 113-year-old boundary dispute between:
1. Argentina and Uruguay.
2. Chile and Bolivia.
3. Peru and Ecuador.
4. Brazil and Venezuela.
5. Argentina and Chile.
PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS
Directions: Each of the ten personalities pictured is identified by one of the following phrases. Place the number of the correct phrase on the answer sheet opposite the number of the picture.
1. Blamed by Roberts Board for Hawaiian disaster.
2. Back again as Stalin's Ambassador to Washington.
3. Famed victim of air crash.
4. King of the U. S. Fleet.
5. Chairman of War Labor Board.
6. Jap Admiral Ambassador who talked peace in Washington while Oahu burned.
7. He led U. S. delegates but not the Rio Conference.
8. "Woman of the Year."
9. Supreme Commander of Allied forces in the Far East.
10. He applauded Free French move on St. Pierre.
11. The U. S.'s Price Boss.
12. Premier of Japan.
13. Busy recruiting flyers for the British Air Transport Auxiliary.
14. C.I.O. Pres. who showed John L. Lewis who was boss.
15. He almost spiked the Rio Conference.
16. Assistant Head of War Production Board.
BUSINESS & FINANCE
84. On Dec. 7 war became America's business and citizens plunged into an economy in which President Roosevelt said:
1. Everyone would be working an 80-hour week by spring.
2. All war business profits would shortly be limited to 6%.
3. Munitions production would be directly controlled by the Government.
4. Half the national income would be spent for war.
5. There would be rationing of everything but food staples in six months.
85. But the Vinson Committee report indicated that one of the greatest U. S. resources had not yet been tapped for the war effort:
1. High-grade iron ore deposits in Utah.
2. The patriotism of American business.
3. Great deposits of copper in Alaska.
4. The pool of unemployed skilled labor.
5. The profit motive.
86. The only one of the following for which there seems little probability of rationing in 1942 is:
1. Silk stockings.
2. Woolens.
3. Porcelain enamelware.
4. Canned foods.
5. Sugar.
87. Most immediately effective way for Americans to get additional steel is to:
1. Air-condition blast furnaces.
2. Rush to completion new steel plants already under construction.
3. Use purer iron ore just found in Montana.
4. Force all steel mills to adopt the electrolytic process.
5. Buy the full capacity of Brazil's new furnaces.
88. But even then there could be a serious threat to capacity steel production in the shortage of :
1. Coke.
2. Scrap iron.
3. Trained labor.
4. Molybdenum.
5. Power.
89. On the Far East, now farther away than ever, the U. S. depended for rubber and hemp, and all but one of these:
1. Mica.
2. Tungsten.
3. Tin.
4. Chrome.
5. Aluminum.
90. Last December Vultee Aircraft completed the biggest merger in U. S. aviation history by swallowing Consolidated Aircraft, and named as new Chairman of its Board:
1. Major Reuben Fleet.
2. Republic Steel's Tom Girdler.
3. Wall Street's Victor Emmanuel.
4. Pan American's Juan Trippe.
5. Plane-Builder Glenn Martin.
91. Highest in history was the U. S. national income in 1941, which totaled:
1. $74,000,000.
2. $86,000,000.
3. $92,000,000.
4. $99,000,000.
5. $103,000,000.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
92. Mass collection and storage of blood by the Red Cross became practicable when doctors found:
1. Red blood could be heated and dried for transfusion.
2. Irradiated, blood of any type is suitable for any transfusion.
3. Plasma could be dried and stored for five years.
4. Blood kept at body temperature doesn't spoil.
5. Oxygen under pressure preserves red corpuscles.
93. Lignin, a waste product in paper making, is now known to be useful in all but one of the following ways:
1. Added to plastics it may double the supply.
2. As vanillin.
3. As a road binder.
4. As a good ersatz maple sugar.
5. Used as an adulterant, it can greatly increase our synthetic rubber output.
94. There would have been many more dead at Pearl Harbor had it not been for a newly invented cigar-shaped device which:
1. Finds metal in the body.
2. Plugs bleeding arteries.
3. Locates traveling torpedoes before they come to the surface.
4. Is the best individual air raid shelter yet.
5. Doubles ack-ack accuracy.
95. Because it can now be produced from sea water and weighs only two-thirds of what aluminum does, more lightweight materials probably will be made of:
1. Zinc.
2. Magnesium.
3. Duralumin.
4. Tungsten.
5. Antimony.
96. And aluminum may itself become more plentiful now that a new process extracts it from:
1. Sand.
2. Quartz.
3. Common clay.
4. Old pots and pans.
5. The Japanese.
97. The United States birth rate in 1941:
1. Was the highest in the nation's history.
2. Was the highest in the 20th century.
3. Showed the same rate of decline as in the last 40 years.
4. Was lower than in any other year since World War I.
5. Hit a ten-year high.
98. Much of the speed with which the U. S. is now producing ships is due to:
1. Lightweight steel plates.
2. Recent improvements in welding.
3. Use of bananas in launching.
4. Recent improvements in riveting.
5. Substitution of plastics for many steel parts.
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
99. That humor will figure large in coming U. S. propaganda is shown by recently announced Government plans for:
1. A series of national billboards by Rea Irwin.
2. More than eighty cartoon shorts by Walt Disney.
3. Nationally syndicated "Pay-Your-Tax-Cheerfully" columns by Walter Winchell.
4. Six feature-length films on America at War starring W. C. Fields.
5. Train-borne Victory Carnivals managed by Floyd Odlum.
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Storm, a new book by George R. Stewart, is about:
1. A storm named Maria.
2. The Jap attack on Oahu.
3. The French Revolution.
4. A German family in Hitler's first year.
5. A red-headed vixen named Ursula.
101. Current movie hit is the John Ford-directed drama about a family of Welsh coal miners:
1. The Citadel.
2. King's Row.
3. Let's Face It.
4. How Green Was My Valley.
5. The Forgotten Village.
102. Dragons and tigers appeared in all but one of these recent titles:
1. -- Seed by Pearl Buck.
2. --'s Teeth by Upton Sinclair.
3. Shake Hands With the -- by Carl Click.
4 -- Milk by David Garth
5. The -- Inside by Hashumura Togo.
103. Hollywood: The Movie Colony--the Movie Makers is a searching study of life there by:
1. John Steinbeck
2. Leo C. Rosten.
3. Robert S. Lynd.
4. George Gallup.
5. Benjamin Schulberg.
104. How far Union Chief Petrillo could go in discriminating against non-union orchestra members was still a question even though at the last minute he revoked a ban on:
1. Sergei Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
2. Arturo Toscanini of the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
3. Walter Damrosch of the New York Symphony Orchestra.
. Bruno Walter of the Cincinnati Orchestra.
5. John Philip Sousa and his Marine Band.
105. Colorado Springs' Fine Arts Center suddenly took the spotlight when it:
1. Exhibited the largest collection of Rembrandts ever shown in America.
2. Made six leading painters members of its staff.
3. Became a "bombproof shelter" for masterpieces from all sections of the country.
4. Discovered the long-lost Blue Boy in its basement.
5. Found that the air there restored oils to their original brilliance.
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