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...their constituents that Philippine coconut oil was a competitor with their cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. But the big importation from the Philippines is sugar from sugar cane, and that brought anguished wails from Louisiana sugarmen, howls of positive pain from sugar-beet growers of Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Michigan. With independence goes a U. S. duty on Philippine sugar which, unless it is tempered by U. S. Tariff Commission experts now probing the situation in Manila, may prove the Islands' agricultural ruin...
...action of bulky food in the intestines has ever been demonstrated," claimed Drs. William Harwood Olmsted, 48, & Ray D. Williams of St. Louis, in telling why they fed three medical students such bulky foods as carrots, cabbage, peas, wheat bran, alfalfa leaf, corn germ meal, cotton seed meal, sugar beet pulp, cellulose flour and agar agar. How do such bulky foods make the bowels move? Drs. Olmsted & Williams decided: "The sum and substance of this physiological experiment goes to prove that the so-called 'bulk' of the human diet is not inert material going through the intestinal tract...
...cold mists of Autumn are beginning to float over Cambridge from the fens in the evenings. On the University farm the sugar beet is being lifted and the sugar beet is being lifted and the harvest stubble is all ploughed up, while the October exams, finished this week, show their results in a few days, and show how many candidates reap the harvest of degrees and how many are ploughed...
...Into a beet field just off the racing course at Santa Ana, Calif, one day last week dived a big metal airplane in a swirl of black smoke. Plunking its belly down on the soft earth it suffered no more damage than a crumpled landing gear, dented fuselage, broken propeller. Cursing darkly, a handsome young man jumped out unscratchcd after having made the fastest flight in the history of landplanes...
...Airways, managed to make one cross-country flight before officials discovered his identity. Next Pilot Hughes took to developing special racers which he flew with moderate success in U. S. air-meets. Latest of these was the husky red-winged plane which last week plopped him down in the beet patch when its fuel line abruptly clogged...