Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burpee at once launched a feverish program of hybridization. Forty thousand cross-breedings were made in eleven months. To keep the new generations growing continuously under the best possible conditions, seeds were shipped by airplane to Miami, California, Puerto Rico, Argentina, by fast steamer to Australia. In California alone, 100 Japanese girls were hired to do nothing but pollinate the blossoms. To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals. In January 1934 Mr. Burpee announced May delivery of seeds for the varicolored, ten-petaled hybrids, a whole growing season...
Goliath and Roland were Southern Sea Elephants or Elephant Seals (Mirunga patagonica), an immensely overgrown genus of seal whose adult males grow a short, useless proboscis. They breed on lonely southern islands, the Falklands off South America, Kerguelen off the Cape of Good Hope, the Macquaries off Australia, commute to the Antarctic ice pack. On the breeding beaches they flip sand on their backs and sleep, not to be disturbed even by man. Lazy and languid bulls fight with none of the ferocity of smaller seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece...
...nations" gathered in the Locarno Room of the British Foreign Office last week for the opening of a new Naval Conference which all oracles have doomed to fail in attaining its objective: limitation of naval armament. Impressive to behold was the majority of seven nations (Great Britain, Canada, India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and the Irish Free State) dwarfing physically the minority of four (U. S., Japan, France and Italy...
...joyous pilot was a onetime New Zealand music student named Jean Batten. Abandoning her studies in London, she acquired a plane which once belonged to Edward of Wales, set out on a career of distance flying. On England-Australia flights she cracked-up twice, finally made it in 1934. Year later she flew back in record time, became the first woman to make the round trip solo. Last week she again took off from England, this time for a series of swift hops to Thies in Senegal, finally on to Natal for a flawless crossing in the record time...
Donald H. McLaughlin, professor of Mining Engineering and chairman of the division of Geology and Geography, will gives an illustrated public lecture on "The Geography of Gold" at 8 o'clock tonight in the Institute of Geographical Exploration. Professor McLaughlin has spent considerable time in the gold regions of Australia and South Africa...