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, 1941, by Time Inc.)
EXPLANATION This test is to enable Time readers to prove their own knowledge of Current Affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test. In all, answer sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, you can check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of this test, entering the number of your right answers as your score on your answer sheet. On previous Time Tests College Student scores have been reported averaging 60; Time Reader scores have averaged 89.7.
This test is given under the honor system--no peeking.
DIRECTIONS
For each of the questions five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the line at the right of the number of the question on the answer sheet.
Example: 0. The President of the U. S. is (1 Coolidge, 2 Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover).
Roosevelt is the correct answer. Since the number of this question is 0, the number 2--standing for Roosevelt--has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.
U. S. IN A WORLD AT WAR
1. Most important act of this Congress was to pass the Lend-Lease Bill, which empowers the President to do all but one of these things: 1. Give tanks to England. 2. Lend planes to China.
3. "Take all steps necessary to deliver these goods." 4. Repair British warships in American yards.
5. Give Britain the secret Norden bombsight.
2. Opposed to this bill as to other measures which it says may lead to war was the America First Committee, among whose spokesmen are all but one of these: 1. Charles A. Lindbergh.
2. Kathleen Norris.
3. General Robert E. Wood.
4. Senator Claude Pepper.
5. Senator Gerald P. Nye.
3. With Nazi attacks at sea endangering the whole program, the President did all but one of these things: 1. Proclaimed the right of U.S. naval vessels to patrol the seven seas.
2. Ordered the navy into convoy service.
3. Put Greenland under U.S. protection.
4. Seized Axis and other alien ships in our harbors.
5. Ordered a 2,000,000-ton merchant ship pool.
4. Then the Germans sank the Egyptian Zamzam carrying 138 Americans, and torpedoed the U.S. ship Robin Moor--and relations were further strained when: 1. The Nazis threatened to continue sinking all ships carrying contraband to enemy ports.
2. They machine-gunned the lifeboats.
3. Goebbels said Secy. Hull lied about the sinking.
4. They announced all U.S. vessels would be treated as enemy shipping.
5. Survivors reported they were brutally mistreated.
5. Tension became even greater when the President closed German consulates in the U.S. and: 1. Publicly asked South America to do the same.
2. Asked Hitler to recall his ambassador.
3. Declared all patent agreements void between American and German corporations.
4. Deprived German Bundsters of U.S. citizenship.
5. Froze all Axis funds in the U.S.
6. Suddenly in April Charles A. Lindbergh resigned from the Army Air Corps Reserve--gave as the reason: 1. He didn't want to return Hitler's decoration.
2. The administration's refusal to set up an independent air force as he demanded.
3. The President had attacked his loyalty.
4. He was opposed to all-out British aid.
5. He wanted to devote his life to science.
7. In the President's May 27th Fireside Chat to the world and sixty-five million listening Americans, he did all but one of these things: 1. Declared a national emergency.
2. Pointedly avoided all reference to Japan.
3. Said the Neutrality Act "must be repealed." 4. Reasserted for the U.S. the freedom of the seas.
5. Said defense must not be interrupted by strikes.
8. Lauchlin Currie's report on his February trip helped the President reach his decision to: 1. Cultivate better relations with Soviet Russia.
2. Stiffen our attitude toward Vichy.
3. Tell the people more about defense progress.
4. Give every possible aid to China.
5. Push a mutual defense pact with Mexico.
9. Vitally important to long-term U.S. defense, according, to the President, is the U.S.-Canadian agreement for immediate development of: 1. Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway, power project.
2. Joint air bases along our North Atlantic coast.
3. A lasting union of the two governments.
4. Air bases in Northern Canada to protect Alaska.
5. A coordinated method of catching Nazi prisoners escaped from Canadian concentration camps.
10. Profiting from its eight months' experience with drafted men, Congress in mid-June moved to: 1. Adapt deferment standards to local conditions.
2. Empower the President to defer everyone over 27.
3. Declare the rulings of civilian doctors final.
4. Train drafted college graduates to be officers.
5. Let draftees spend more time at home, on leave.
11. This May, New York City's Mayor LaGuardia became: 1. OPM Priorities Chief. 2. Secretary of War.
3. Civilian Defense Administrator.
4. Chairman of National Defense Mediation Board.
5. Chairman of Office of Production Management.
12. To finance defense the U.S. Treasury is now offering all but one of the following: 1. Non-interest-bearing 10-c- savings stamps.
2. Tax-exempt Government bonds for big investors.
3. Non-interest-bearing $5.00 savings stamps.
4. Non-interest-bearing $25.00 bonds for small investors sold at a discount.
5. $100 to $10,000 interest-bearing bonds.
DEFENSE PRODUCTION 13. Closely identified with the National Defense effort are all but one of the following businessmen: 1. James Forrestal 2. Donald Nelson 3. John Biggers 4. Robert McCormick 5. W. A. Harriman
14. Under the new Priorities Bill the President has the unprecedented power to do all but one of these: 1. Grant absolute priority to all Government agency contracts deemed vital to defense.
2. Do the same for private industry contracts.
3. Do the same for subcontracts and sub-orders.
4. Control the distribution and allocation of all products whose shortages might threaten defense.
5. Draft labor for work in priority industries.
15. But number one headache to national defense is the failure of OPM's chiefs to avoid the serious production shortage of vital: 1. Rubber 2. Crude petroleum 3. Lumber 4. Aluminum 5. Cement
16. There is also a growing freight car shortage caused by all but one of the following: 1. The leasing of 4,500 freight cars to Canada.
2. Failure of the railroads to order new cars earlier.
3. Greatly increased loads due to the defense boom.
4. The transfer of American vessels from coastwise and intercoastal routes to British aid service.
5. Scarcity of steel for new cars.
17. U.S. plane production figures in April showed: 1. Production was up to forecasts made last October.
2. We were making 400 bombers a month.
3. Production had doubled since last November.
4. Our rate of production is already twice Britain's.
5. 1,500 planes waiting for bottlenecked motors.
18. Though an effective Two-Ocean Navy is still four years away, one branch of U.S. naval building was shown to be ahead of schedule when: 1. The aircraft carrier Saratoga was launched in May.
2. 42 new destroyers were launched in April.
3. Six cruisers were commissioned in five weeks.
4. 50 minnow submarines were finished in May.
5. The battleship North Carolina was commissioned this spring.
19. Already called "one of the world's most powerful men," Jesse Jones was recently authorized by Congress to: 1. Dictate tariffs on strategic defense materials.
2. Establish priorities in rail traffic.
3. Spend $1,500,000,000 more to set up any corporations the President deems vital to defense.
4. Buy American securities now held by the British.
5. Fix security prices if inflation threatens.
20. World War I cost the U.S. twenty-two billion dollars--but by mid-May, even before entering World War II, we had spent or committed ourselves to spend about: 1. Ten billion 2. Seventy billion 3. Twenty billion 4. One hundred billion 5. Fifty billion
LABOR 21. Darkest spot in the defense program during winter and early spring was strikes, the most costly of which tied up $45,000,000 worth of orders for ten weeks at: 1. U.S. Steel.
2. Allis-Chalmers. 3. Alcoa. 4. Baldwin Locomotive. 5. Remington Arms.
22. The labor situation seemed so threatening this spring that the President appointed a National Defense Mediation Board, which by mid-May had: 1. Heard only 16 out of 97 cases submitted.
2. Ended 28 strikes out of 34 cases certified.
3. Reversed six decisions of Madam Perkins.
4. Won the applause of even John L. Lewis.
5. Hopelessly antagonized the A. F. of L.
23. Even Henry Ford had to come to terms--agreed to all but one of these things:
1. A union shop.
2. The check-off system.
3. A wage increase.
4. Immediate employee profit sharing.
5. Elimination of his notorious Service Department.
24. Steel production dropped 75,000 tons in one week when all defense production was threatened by: 1. Sabotage on Great Lakes ore boats.
2. A shortage of freight cars.
3. A Communist-inspired slowdown in the steel mills.
4. A soft-coal strike.
5. A strike in the molybdenum mines.
25. Finally, when local leaders suddenly called a strike during mediation procedures, the President had the army occupy:
1. The Seattle lumber yards.
2. Southern coal mines.
3. Alcoa's plant in Cleveland.
4. North American Aviation Inc.
5. The San Francisco shipyards.
26. A late FORTUNE Magazine labor poll showed that a great majority of U.S. people: 1. Favored outlawing strikes in defense industries.
2. Favored higher wages to meet rising living costs.
3. Favored a law forbidding jurisdictional strikes, but opposed any other restrictions on Labor.
4. Opposed all restrictions on the right to strike.
5. Blamed Management more than Labor for strikes.
HERE AND THERE
27. In a far-reaching decision this spring the Supreme Court upheld the Constitutionality of the: 1. Wagner Labor Relations Act.
2. Anti-Chain Store Law.
3. Wages and Hours Act.
4. Lend-Lease Act.
5. U.S. Housing Act.
28. "Illegal usurpation of power!" screamed the National Association of Broadcasters when the F.C.C. : 1. Demanded the power to censor all news commentary.
2. Drastically limited the networks' power to dictate their affiliates' choice of programs.
3. Drafted time for South American broadcasts.
4. Moved to build 20 government transmitters.
5. Ordered the N.A.B. to fire its president.
29. Oil-boss Ickes brought the war home to Americans when he said we might soon have gasless Sundays because of:
1. Transport bottleneck.
2. Low oil stocks due to British shipments.
3. Confiscation of American oil holdings by Mexico.
4. A wave of strikes in the oil fields.
5. Requirements of our growing mechanized army.
30. New faces on the Supreme Court are those of:
1. Chief Justice Stone and Justice Byrnes.
2. Justices Stone and Frankfurter.
3. Justices Jackson and Byrnes.
4. Chief Justice Jackson and Justice Stone.
5. Justices Byrnes and McReynolds.
31. The Nazi invasion of Russia on June 22 which suddenly and dramatically changed the whole strategy of the war was preceded by all but one of these things: 1. Nazi troop concentrations in Finland.
2. Hitler's avowal in "Mein Kampf" that Russia was his first enemy in Europe.
3. Stalin's accession as Russia's premier.
4. Hitler's anti-Communism campaign in 1940.
5. Stalin's failure to give Nazis promised goods.
THE BALKANS AND THE MIDDLE EAST 32. Twelfth nation to come under Hitler control and his last bloodless conquest in the Balkans was: 1. Hungary.
2. Rumania. 3. Slovakia. 4. Bulgaria. 5. Macedonia.
33. His next victim, Yugoslavia, chose to fight after an army coup arranged for the accession of young King: 1. Nicholas III.
2. Paul I. 3. Boris II. 4. Vladimir V. 5. Peter II.
34. Reason for the coup was public indignation at the Cvetkovich Government which had just: 1. Signed up the nation with the Axis.
2. Allowed Nazi troops to pass through to Greece.
3. Ceded the Banat region to Germany.
4. Ordered demobilization on orders from Berlin.
5. Ceded Italy naval bases on the Dalmatian Coast.
35. As the Nazis attacked, the British launched a campaign in Greece made possible by all but one of these: 1. British victories over the Italians in Africa.
2. The considerable force they had established in Greece many weeks before.
3. The promise of India's nationalist leaders to suspend civil disobedience until after the war.
4. The failure of Japan to press on toward Singapore and the Netherlands East Indies.
5. British naval victories in the Mediterranean.
36. But Hitler swept on to victory, although Britain managed to evacuate some 75% of her troops, thanks to a valiant rear-guard action at: 1. Salonika.
2. Thermopylae. 3. Troy. 4. Corizza. 5. Ephesus.
37. Turkey sat tight, did nothing for 6 weeks, and then: 1. Abrogated her treaty with Britain.
2. Became a full-fledged Axis partner.
3. Joined the Nazis the day they attacked Russia.
4. Overthrew President Inonu--made pro-Axis Saracoglu Prime Minister.
5. Signed a non-aggression pact with Germany.
38. The battle of Crete, won in 12 furious days by the Nazis, was notable for all but one of these reasons: 1. The British Fleet suffered heavy losses.
2. Axis submarines controlled the sea between Crete and Greece during the whole battle.
3. Glider-borne troops were used by the invaders.
4. Britain's Air Force withdrew on the third day.
5. Thousands of Nazi troops parachuted to the attack.
39. Soon after, Britain suppressed a Nazi-backed revolt in Iraq--a country of strategic importance because: 1. It lies directly between the Nazi armies and Suez.
2. It contains the rich Mosul oil fields.
3. Germany covets its rich wheat country.
4. Its Grand Mufti has great influence in India.
5. It has strategic ports on the Gulf of Aden.
40. With Vichy tolerating more and more Nazi landings at her colonial airports, British and Free French forces suddenly drove into: 1. Trans-Jordan.
2. Iran. 3. Syria. 4. Tunisia. 5. Morocco.
41. Meeting little resistance, the invading forces during the first few days:
1. Were reinforced by French troops deserting to De Gaulle's standard.
2. Occupied Damascus and Beirut.
3. Captured Aleppo and 300 German planes at the airport there.
4. Pushed on to Tripoli, laid siege to a Nazi division there.
5. Were stalled by a week-long sandstorm.
WAR IN AFRICA
42. In May, after fighting the British in East Africa all Spring, the Italians: 1. Brought their navy into the Red Sea for support.
2. Finally took strategic British Somaliland.
3. Lost Ethiopia--but were firmly entrenched in Eritrea.
4. Had lost control of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Italian Somaliland.
5. Were reinforced by the Nazis, drove the British back into the Sudan.
43. By the early Spring, General Wavell's drive across Libya had taken the British advance units just beyond: 1. Derna. 2. Tripoli. 3. Tobruch. 4. Bengasi.
5. Cheren.
44. The successful Axis counterattack which drove the reduced British forces back into Egypt was due chiefly to: 1. Malaria, which decimated Australian and New Zealand troops.
2. The completion of the Axis-built highway from Oran to Dakar.
3. A native uprising against British forces of occupation.
4. The recall of the west Mediterranean Fleet to protect England.
5. The presence of German Panzer divisions which had slipped through the British blockade.
BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
45. Chiefly responsible for greatly increased British sea losses this spring were: 1. German bombers operating from bases in Greenland.
2. Matchbox British merchant ships built for the emergency.
3. Nazi saboteurs on British ships.
4. Magnetic mines.
5. Nazi surface raiders and "wolf-packs" of small submarines.
46. In fighting the German counter-blockade, Britain was handicapped by all but one of the following: 1. Her lack of destroyers.
2. Nazi submarine bases over most of Europe's west coast.
3. Her failure to secure air and naval bases from Ireland.
4. German occupation of the Cape Verde Islands.
5. Increasing effectiveness of German aircraft in sinking ships.
47. Britain's plight grew serious when by the end of April her wartime shipping losses totaled approximately: 1. 1,000,000 tons.
2. 8,000,000 tons. 3. 10,000,000 tons. 4. 15,000,000 tons. 5. 4,000,000 tons.
48. In the sinking by the Royal Navy of the Nazi Bismarck, which had just sunk the British Hood, all but one of these things were true:
1. It was a 1,750-mile-long chase.
2. The Bismarck was the world's most powerful battleship.
3. The hunt lasted 78 hours.
4. Three cruisers were only British ships involved.
5. An American-built plane spotted her for the kill.
THE FAR EAST
49. In this year's biggest battle of the four-year-old Chinese War, the Japanese crossed the Yellow River and:
1. Drove on to within 150 miles of Chungking.
2. Were forced to go back again.
3. Cut the Burma Road.
4. Captured General Chen Cheng and 100,000 men.
5. Lost more men and materiel than Mussolini in Libya.
50. An ever-present threat to Chiang Kai-shek's government is the:
1. Serious rioting in Tibet.
2. Uncertain loyalty of Chinese Communist troops.
3. Threat of invasion by the Indo-Chinese.
4. Japanese blockade of the old "Marco Polo" route to Russia.
5. Failure of the winter rice crop.
51. In March the Japanese got valuable new bases when their forced "mediation" ended the war between: 1. Thailand and Indo-China.
2. Tibet and Burma.
3. Tibet and Afghanistan.
4. Chosen and Manchukuo.
5. Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia.
52.Then sensational "Easter" agreements were announced by Japan and Russia containing all but one of these terms:
1. A Japanese pledge to respect the Soviet position in Outer Mongolia.
2. A mutual pledge of neutrality in case the other is attacked.
3. Surrender of Japanese fishing rights off Kamchatka.
4. Mutual inviolability." recognition of each other's "territorial inviolability." 5. Soviet recognition of Manchukuo.
Directions: The following statements identify scenes of important war developments in and around the Mediterranean. On the answer sheet, opposite the number of each statement below, write the number on the map which correctly locates the place or territory described.
53. Yugoslav capital and open city blitzed by Nazis.
54. Greek port whose capture gave Hitler his first Mediterranean outlet.
55. Britain's biggest Mediterranean naval anchorage.
56. Italian base from which Nazis are counterattacking in Libya.
57. Where greatest naval battle since Jutland cost Italy at least six ships.
58. The Dardanelles, historic outlet to the Mediterranean.
59. Capital of ancient kingdom where British put down Axis-inspired revolt in four weeks' war.
60. Island captured by Nazis in biggest air invasion of war.
61. Where Vichy's army was fighting the British in mid-June.
62. Mosul oil fields, coveted by Nazis.
HERE AND THERE
63. History was made by the Archbishop of York and a group of English clerics and laymen at Malvern College which:
1. Condemned English participation in the war.
2. Called on the Church to take the lead in building a new cooperative society.
3. Petitioned for the disestablishment of the Church of England.
4. Declared the war a holy war.
5. Called for reunion with Roman Catholic Church.
64. By the end of May the Battle of the Blockades had reached a point where:
1. Germans were eating better than Britons.
2. London passed a law demanding the butchering of all dogs.
3. Desperately hungry Belgians rebelled, fought for five bloody days.
4. British daily rations were six times Germany's.
5. Lord Wooltpn asked the U. S. to skip a meal a week and ship the food to Britain.
65. Last month in the most ruinous night of bombing London has known, all but one of these landmarks were hit: 1. Nelson Monument.
2. Westminster Abbey. 3. British Museum. 4. Westminster Hall. 5. House of Commons.
66. Three hundred native volunteers asked to be taken back to fight the Germans when the British Fleet made a surprise raid on: 1. Reykjavik, Iceland.
2. The coast of Brittany.
3. Sicily.
4. The northern coast of Madagascar.
5. The Lofoten Islands in Norway.
67. Greatest unsolved mystery of the war was the sudden parachute arrival in Scotland of Nazi bigwig Rudolf Hess, of whom all but one of these things are true: 1. He went to jail with Hitler after Beer Hall putsch.
2. He helped write Mein Kampf.
3. He was the Nazi Party Leader.
4. He was Hitler's Minister of Propaganda.
5. Hitler had told the German people to obey Hess as they would himself.
68. In mid-June, when Germany was said to be making new threatening demands upon the Soviet Union, Britain's ambassador to Russia, Sir Stafford Cripps 1. Asked not to be returned to Moscow as he saw no hope for Britain in Russia.
2. Announced a new trade agreement between Britain and Russia.
3. Was given passport by Kremlin--told to go home.
4. Dropped out of sight, had not been heard from for five weeks.
5. Called on British labor to demand a more powerful voice in the conduct of the war.
69. Last month after a year of slowly giving ground before Hitler's demands, Marshal Petain in a dramatic two-minute radio announcement: 1. Told of Laval's reappointment as Vice Premier.
2. Announced a new policy of "curtailed cooperation with the conquerors." 3. Signalled Vichy's full intention to cooperate with the Nazis.
4. Asked the people to volunteer for Nazi military service.
5. Resigned because of poor health.
70. In April, the Osservatore Romano, semi-official Catholic newspaper, left no doubt that the Catholic Church: 1. Would excommunicate any Catholics who helped bomb Rome.
2. Had made its peace with Adolf Hitler.
3. Was strongly anti-Nazi.
4. Had been suppressed in Germany.
5. Approved Nazi racial theories.
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. Newly appointed Commander at Gibraltar.
2. Leading Congressional isolationist.
3. Recently retired Chief Justice.
4. Socialite founder of Bundles for Britain.
5. Commander of British forces in the Middle East.
6. Likely to star in movie of "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
7. Wilhelm Hohenzollern, deceased.
8. Anti-British French Premier and Petain's successor-designate.
9. Permanent White House guest and Lend-Lease Bill administrator.
10. Left retirement to score new Broadway hit in "The Corn is Green."
11. No. 3 Nazi who parachuted to Scotland.
12. Famous screen beauty who staged come-back as repulsive-faced blackmailer.
13. Lincolnesque U. S. Ambassador to Britain.
14. Bottle-throwing U. S. Minister to Bulgaria.
15. Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
16. "Lady in the Dark."
71. In the first four months of 1941 U. S. industrial production as shown by the Federal Reserve Board Index:
1. Fell steadily as strikes crippled production.
2. Rose steadily for three months, then began to fall.
3. Rose swiftly and steadily.
4. Showed no change.
5. Fell until February, then began to rise.
72. The recent 10-c--an-hour rise in steel wages had small chance of acceptance by the management group until:
1. The RFC offered to pay half the increase.
2. CIO threatened a general strike.
3. Labor Secretary Perkins suddenly "got tough."
4. Ernest T. Weir unexpectedly granted the increase to his National Steel workers.
5. President Roosevelt threatened to withhold orders from noncomplying plants.
73. U. S. national income in 1941's first quarter was the highest since 1929, about:
1. $5,000,000,000.
2. $11,500,000,000. 3. $15,000,000,000. 4. $19,500,000,000. 5. $25,000,000,000.
74. Since his appointment as Price Administrator, Leon Henderson has frozen prices in all but one of these industries:
1. Housing. 2. Steel. 3. Machine tools. 4. Cotton yarns. 5. Scrap metals.
75. Indicative of Britain's desperate need for cash was the sale in March of one of its biggest U. S. investments:
1. Rolls Royce.
2. Shell Oil. 3. Philip Morris Ltd. 4. Gaumont-British Pictures. 5. American Viscose Corp.
76. Parity and conservation payments plus a new Commodity Credit Corporation loan rate now guarantee the U. S. farmer:
1. The best average price for wheat since 1927.
2. The highest price for wheat in all history.
3. Against all loss on any produce.
4. That his income will keep 10% ahead of commodity prices.
5. An unlimited market for cotton and tobacco.
77. Throughout 1940's boom times and into the first quarter of 1941 U. S. corporations found that profits:
1. Far outstripped production.
2. Kept pace with production.
3. Lagged behind production.
4. Were less than in 1933.
5. Were greater than in 1929.
78. Under Federal "priorities" strict rationing to industry has been put into effect on all but one of the following:
1. Nickel.
2. Wood pulp. 3. Machine tools. 4. Magnesium. 5. Aluminum.
79. The steel-capacity fight seemed ended in early June when OPM:
1. Proved there would be a surplus this year.
2. Asked for a 10,000,000 ton expansion.
3. Declined to put any priorities on steel.
4. Settled on a face-saving increase of 1,000,000 tons.
5. Stated we could get all the steel we need by curtailing auto production.
90. Although U. S. draftees are two inches taller, pounds heavier than the last war, one-fifth are unfit service because of: 1. Under or overweight.
2. Flat feet. 3. Defective vision. 4. Venereal disease. 5. Poor teeth.
91. The American Medical Association made news in when it:
1. Was convicted of violating the Sherman Trust Act.
2. Announced a nation-wide health insurance plan.
3. Denounced all health insurance plans as "brain children of Moscow." 4. Expelled 600 members for taking part in a group medical plan.
5. Arranged for 2,000 doctors to be sent to at once to help air-raid victims.
92. Dr. Harold George Wolff delighted tipplers and enraged dries by announcing whiskey is: 1. One of the cheapest and best temporary pain killers.
2. A necessary tonic for anemics.
3. "The perfect mouth and belly wash." 4. A desirable part of the daily diet in these hectic times.
5. Used in some form by every great man of action history.
93. A new method of treating burns, which may replace tannic acid is Dr. Robert Henry Aldrich's:
1. Boracic acid drip.
2. Peanut oil pack.
3. Alkali bath regime.
4. Triple dye treatment.
5. Semi-starvation diet.
94. In May, death came to the great Sir James Fraser: 1. Discoverer of insulin.
2. Inventor of the turbine-driven engine.
3. Author of "The Golden Bough," 4. Inventor of the mechanical heart.
5. Author of "The Psychology of Terror."
95. Chief killer of people between 18 and 40, according to figures recently released, is: 1. Cancer.
2. Tuberculosis. 3. Diabetes. 4. Diphtheria. 5. Pneumonia.
96. Hypochondriacs can take comfort from the news that they and 12,000,000 fellow Americans may have the vitality-sapping, milk-borne disease: 1. Scurvy.
2. Lacticemia. 3. Rickets. 4. Trichinosis. 5. Brucellosis.
97. Ex-Convict, Ex-Communist, Ex-Gestapo member Richard Julius Herman Krebs tells all in his vivid autobiography:
1. "In Stalin's Secret Service"--Walter Krivitzky.
2. "Out of the Night"--Jan Valtin.
3. "Between Two Worlds"--Upton Sinclair.
4. "Voice of Destruction"--Hermann Rauschning.
5. "Trek to Freedom"--Andre Siegfried.
98. With his "Native Son" already a Broadway success, release of Orson Welles' film "Citizen Kane" was held over two months following rumors that it: 1, Violated the Hays code.
2. Mirrored incidents from the life of William Randolph Hearst.
3. Was anti-British in tone.
4. Was cleverly sugar-coated Communist propaganda.
5. Contained military secrets.
99. One of the largest and most expensive art galleries the world was recently opened in: 1. Madison, Wisconsin.
2. Chicago, Illinois.
3. New York, New York.
4. San Francisco, California.
5. Washington, D. C.
100. Greatest Pulitzer Prize sensation since Sinclair Lewis refused the award for "Arrowsmith" occurred the prize for the best novel of 1941: 1. Was termed a "distortion of literary justice" by William Saroyan in a nation-wide broadcast.
2. Was awarded to Gertrude Stein for her "Bird Talk."
3. Was stolen.
4. Went to the President of the Committee, Nicholas Murray Butler.
5. Was withheld.
101. After being barred by the networks since January, ASCAP cracked the solid front of the National Association of Broadcasters by: 1. Convincing the FCC that all networks should bow to its demands.
2. Buying out the Blue network of NBC.
3. Organizing 73 independent stations as the new American Broadcasting System.
4. Hiring away BMI's best lyricists and composers.
5. Signing an agreement with Mutual Broadcasting Company.
102. By using magazine distribution methods, this U. S. publisher set a new record for selling adult books in America:
1. Borzoi Books.
2. Pocket Books. 3. Penguin Books. 4. Simon & Schuster. 5. Modern Age Books.
103. Death, as it must to all men, came recently to all but one of the following authors : 1. John Cowper Powys.
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald. 3. Sherwood Anderson. 4. Virginia Woolf. 5. James Joyce.
104. Billy Rose proved again he is America's No. 1 showman by : 1. Turning Madison Square Garden into a colossal dance palace for jitterbugs.
2. Displaying the first Messerschmitt bomber to be seen in the U. S.
3. Turning the S. S. Normandie into a super nightclub.
4. Building a mammoth amusement park on the site of New York's World's Fair.
5. Providing the first army camp show draftees were crazy about.
105. The nature of the politico-economic world after the war is the subject of James Burnham's highly controversial book: 1. The Managerial Revolution.
2. The Habit of Empire.
3. The Coming of American Fascism.
4. The Revolution of Nihilism.
5. The Shape of Things to Come.
ANSWER SHEET, ANSWER SHEET ANSWER SHEET, ANSWER SHEET NAT'L AFFAIRS, NAT'L AFFAIRS 0. . .2. ., 0. . .2.. 1...., 1.... 2...., 2.... 3...., 3.... 4...., 4.... 5...., 5.... 6...., 6.... 7...., 7.... 8...., 8.... 9...., 9.... 10...., 10.... 11...., 11.... 12...., 12.... 13...., 13.... 14...., 14.... 15...., 15.... 16...., 16.... 17...., 17.... 18...., 18.... 19...., 19.... 20...., 20.... 21...., 21.... 22...., 22.... 23...., 23.... 24...., 24.... 25...., 25.... 26...., 26.... 27...., 27.... 28...., 28.... 29...., 29.... 30...., 30....
FOREIGN NEWS, FOREIGN NEWS 31...., 31.... 32...., 32.... 33...., 33.... 34...., 34.... 35...., 35.... 36...., 36.... 37...., 37.... 38...., 38.... 39...., 39.... 40...., 40.... 41...., 41.... 42...., 42.... 43...., 43.... 44...., 44.... 45...., 45.... 46...., 46.... 47...., 47.... 48...., 48.... 49...., 49.... 50...., 50.... 51...., 51.... 52...., 52....
THEATER OF WAR, THEATER OF WAR 53...., 53.... 54...., 54.... 55...., 55.... 56...., 56.... 57...., 57.... 58...., 58.... 59...., 59.... 60...., 60.... 61...., 61.... 62...., 62.... 63...., 63.... 64...., 64.... 65...., 65.... 66...., 66.... 67...., 67.... 68...., 68.... 69...., 69.... 70...., 70....
BUSINESS-FINANCE, BUSINESS-FINANCE 71...., 71.... 72...., 72.... 73...., 73.... 74...., 74.... 75...., 75.... 76...., 76.... 77...., 77.... 78...., 78.... 79...., 79....
PICTURES, PICTURES 80...., 80.... 81...., 81.... 82...., 82.... 83...., 83.... 84...., 84.... 85...., 85.... 86...., 86.... 87...., 87.... 88...., 88.... 89...., 89....
SCIENCE, SCIENCE 90...., 90.... 91...., 91.... 92...., 92.... 93...., 93.... 94...., 94.... 95...., 95.... 96...., 96....
THE ARTS, THE ARTS 97...., 97.... 98...., 98.... 99...., 99.... 100...., 100.... 101...., 101.... 102...., 102.... 103...., 103.... 104...., 104.... 105...., 105....
ANSWER SHEET, ANSWER SHEET NAT'L AFFAIRS, NAT'L AFFAIRS 0. . .2. ., 0. . .2.. 1...., 1.... 2...., 2.... 3...., 3.... 4...., 4.... 5...., 5.... 6...., 6.... 7...., 7.... 8...., 8.... 9...., 9.... 10...., 10.... 11...., 11.... 12...., 12.... 13...., 13.... 14...., 14.... 15...., 15.... 16...., 16.... 17...., 17.... 18...., 18.... 19...., 19.... 20...., 20.... 21...., 21.... 22...., 22.... 23...., 23.... 24...., 24.... 25...., 25.... 26...., 26.... 27...., 27.... 28...., 28.... 29...., 29.... 30...., 30....
FOREIGN NEWS, FOREIGN NEWS 31...., 31.... 32...., 32.... 33...., 33.... 34...., 34.... 35...., 35.... 36...., 36.... 37...., 37.... 38...., 38.... 39...., 39.... 40...., 40.... 41...., 41.... 42...., 42.... 43...., 43.... 44...., 44.... 45...., 45.... 46...., 46.... 47...., 47.... 48...., 48.... 49...., 49.... 50...., 50.... 51...., 51.... 52...., 52....
THEATER OF WAR, THEATER OF WAR 53...., 53.... 54...., 54.... 55...., 55.... 56...., 56.... 57...., 57.... 58...., 58.... 59...., 59.... 60...., 60.... 61...., 61.... 62...., 62.... 63...., 63.... 64...., 64.... 65...., 65.... 66...., 66.... 67...., 67.... 68...., 68.... 69...., 69.... 70...., 70....
BUSINESS-FINANCE, BUSINESS-FINANCE 71...., 71.... 72...., 72.... 73...., 73.... 74...., 74.... 75...., 75.... 76...., 76.... 77...., 77.... 78...., 78.... 79...., 79....
PICTURES, PICTURES 80...., 80.... 81...., 81.... 82...., 82.... 83...., 83.... 84...., 84.... 85...., 85.... 86...., 86.... 87...., 87.... 88...., 88.... 89...., 89....
SCIENCE, SCIENCE 90...., 90.... 91...., 91.... 92...., 92.... 93...., 93.... 94...., 94.... 95...., 95.... 96...., 96....
THE ARTS, THE ARTS 97...., 97.... 98...., 98.... 99...., 99.... 100...., 100.... 101...., 101.... 102...., 102.... 103...., 103.... 104...., 104.... 105...., 105....
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