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...Architects in many lands have read his paper on getting the maxi mum amount of sunlight into a house. He is considered an expert on designing squash courts. One day he noticed his brother's walls were leaking. When he found out that Chicago's Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium, both masonry structures, also had leak troubles, he decided steel would be a better building material than brick. He first took his idea of a General Motors in the housing field to steel-conscious Charles Allen Liddle, president of Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp...
...Aquarium-the place where a sucker takes his date to dance. (Syracuse...
...female ejects the eggs he fertilizes them, takes them in his mouth one by one and carefully places them in the bubblenest. After she has laid the eggs the female is through, and unless she is removed from the aquarium, her mate will kill her. He zealously guards the nest until the young are hatched, and even guards the young for three or four days until they have developed enough to care for themselves. Then, having performed his family duties, the male will turn cannibal and eat the young he has been guarding, unless he is also removed...
Visitors to the New York Aquarium last week attempted to elbow their way past guards into the laboratories to see the Aquarium's now most famed visitor- two-inch, red-finned, green-bodied Wat Chant Aiur Bopiter, Siamese fighting fish...
Once prominent in Bangkok's fish fighting halls. Wat Chant Aiur Bopiter was brought to the U. S. aboard the Cook's-touring S. S. Franconia, is now destined for a life of retirement in a Manhattan fish-fancier's private aquarium...