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Last week Science Service reported that hydroponics would soon get under way at Wake Island, the tiny speck of land in mid-ocean which Pan American Airways uses as a way station for its trans-Pacific Clippers. For Wake Island's barren half acre, hydroponics is a natural. In the mild tropical climate no greenhouses will be necessary. If the open-air tanks of mineralized water function as expected, Wake Island will have fresh beans, tomatoes and other vegetables for the resident personnel and for the Clippers' crews and passengers...
...follow. Among those detained were some members of the former, now defunct, Greek Parliament in which there were only 15 Communists. Before courts-martial the "Reds" were sentenced to terms of from four to six years. They will probably join some 2,000 other "comrades" being held on barren islands in the Aegean Sea by Dictator Metaxas...
...Muscat, young Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur has a $225,000-a-year salary, a harem with many wives, a Ford car which he drives up & down the barren country's sole 30-mile highway. His Highness Saiyid Said bin Taimur has ruled since 1932 when at his coming of age his father, who hated his job so much that he stayed in Muscat only one month a year, abdicated, retired to Japan. Having amazed Washington for three days last week, Sultan Saiyid Said removed his robes, put on street clothes, departed for New York...
...myth. But, although few knew it, mounted marines were a real part of the U. S. Marine Corps. During the U. S. "trade-follows-the-flag" era, mounted marines were used in Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Mexico and Nicaragua. In 1903 a squad of marines jogged on horseback through barren Ethiopia to visit Emperor Menelek II. Then in 1909, with China on the edge of a bloody revolution, a detachment of U. S. marines stationed at Peking mounted stumpy-legged Mongolian ponies, set to watching over U. S. citizens living outside embassy quarters. Since then, the Peking marines have remained...
Citing the example of Italy's annexation of Ethiopia, a barren acquisition admittedly made to unify the Italian people and provide an outlet for rest lessness in the fighting forces, Wild said that the cry for colonies is only a cloak for Fascism's internal need for an enemy to flaunt before the people...