ANSWERS:
- The government was afraid that news written in letters sent home might inadvertently pass information to the enemy.
- In 1928, a culture plate was left uncovered in a lab. Mold spores got into the plate, ultimately killing the bacteria surrounding them.
- Bob Feller said, "He's tied up in the shoulders and can't hit an inside pitch to save his neck. If he were a white man, I doubt they would even consider him big league material."
- The "S" did not stand for any name but was a compromise between the names of his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young.
- Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented the television system.
- He was more at ease on the floor; he felt nearer to and more a part of his painting, since he could walk around in it and work on it from four sides.
- The quote was "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing!"
- In l957, 4.3 million babies were born.
- A Slinky is made with 80 feet of wire.
- The average woman factory worker's salary in 1944 was $31.21 a week; men made $54.65 a week.
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