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With a letter from Major General Sherman Miles and testimony of such work as the Grove tragedy to point to the Motor Squadron remains as one of the best chauces to see active duty when an emergency should arrive, according to Laurence O. Pratt '26, second Lieuten-ant in the First Motor Squadron of the Massachusetts State Guard...
Only in the last 20 years have scientists really become termite-conscious. Termites were almost unknown in 1781, when the Royal Society decided that Naturalist Smeathman was heat-crazy when he reported that tropical termites build nests ten to 35 ft. high (sometimes miscalled ant-hills), the largest structures built by any animal except man. In the U.S. the work of termites was long mistaken for that of fungi and dry-rot which usually follow their riddlings...
...military use fulness, struck a surprisingly rich vein : e.g., Astronomer Edward A. Fath, who turned out to be one of the foremost U.S. experts in celestial navigation; Geographer Laurence McKinley Gould, a top-notch map man and navigator who was second in command of Admiral Byrd's first Ant arctic expedition; Physicist Charles...
Coveted Bases. Among these ominous developments was held what was likely to prove one of history's most futile conversations. It took place in the warm winter mildness of Seville, between Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Portugal's Premier António de Oliveira Salazar. Doubtless they tried to solidify the one complete agreement between neutral Portugal and nonbelligerent, pro-Axis Spain. Both want to suffer as little damage as possible from the shocks and tremors of World War II. But Spain surrounds-and covets-the British fortress of Gibraltar, and Portugal's coastline...
Despite Kennedy's bearishness, the Hertz group chose to retain control, putting in a new management headed by bald, pleas ant Barney Balaban, oldtime Chicago exhibitor...