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BUSINESS AND FINANCE
71. When war came on September 1, the New York Stock Market:
1. Was thrown into a panic.
2. Moved higher but did not keep pace with the rise in industrial production.
3. Was closed.
4. Soared and outran production.
5. Asked Mr. Roosevelt for help.
72. If on September 1 you had bought the following five commodities your biggest profit by the end of the year would have been in:
1. Wheat.
2. Sugar.
3. Cotton.
4. Steel scrap.
5. Copper.
73. In contrast with World War I, British and French purchases here since the war began have been:
1. Disappointingly small.
2. Beyond expectations.
3. Financed by U.S. loans.
4.Placed through J. P. Morgan & Co.
5. Intercepted at sea by Germany
74. The U. S. industry boosted most spectacularly by the war is:
1. Small arms.
2. Textiles.
3. Aircraft.
4. Ship building.
5. Agriculture.
75. Although unemployment in late November was still around the nine million mark, there was:
1. An epidemic of strikes.
2. A sharp rise in the wage level.
3. A strong sentiment to let down on immigration restrictions.
4. A serious skilled labor shortage in key industries.
5. A shortage of agricultural labor.
76. In November, Du Pont went into quantity production on Nylon, the new artificial silk for stockings which may cut in half our imports from:
1. China.
2. Sicily.
3. Japan.
4. France.
5. Sumatra.
77. Compared with 1938, last year's cash farm income was:
1. Much less.
2. Slightly less.
3. The same.
4. A little more.
5. Up 50%.
78. As compared with close of 1938, stock market prices (Dow-Jones Industrial Average) at close of 1939 were:
1. Slightly lower.
2. Much lower.
3. Slightly higher.
4. Much higher.
5. Exactly the same.
SCIENCE
79. Frozen sleep and injections of filtrate of mouse tissue plus a high vitamin diet are two encouraging new treatments for:
1. Scarlet fever.
2. Typhoid.
3. Cancer.
4. Yaws.
5. Cholera.
80. In 1939 U. S. airlines set a new high of 733,000,000 passenger miles with:
1. No passenger fatalities all year.
2. More passenger fatalities than ever before.
3. An average safety record.
4. Nearly four times as good a safety record as best previous year.
5. A worse record than the Russians and the Dutch.
81. Two new weapons in the war against infantile paralysis, as indicated by recent experiments on monkeys, may be:
1. Electrical stimulation and glucose injections.
2. Paraldehyde and sulfanilamide.
3. Testosterone propionate and hydroxyethylapocupreine.
4. Cobra venom and chloride injections.
5. Vitamin C and the female sex hormone oestrogen.
82. 200,000,000 electron-volts of atomic energy were released when:
1. The Carnegie Institution split an atom of uranium.
2. Booneville Dam generators began to hum.
3. Man-made lightning was made at World's Fair.
4. A meteorite exploded over New Mexico.
5. An earthquake destroyed Erzincan.
83. Newly discovered is the fact