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...means and making it a centre for illicit dealing.in every form of homegrown and smuggled opium. Pamphlets dropped from airplanes, charged Mr. Fuller, instruct Manchukuo farmers in the best ways of growing opium. Stamped on the new money of Manchukuo, he sarcastically observed, is "a beautiful poppy in full bloom!"-an opium poppy. Of the Manchukuo Opium Monopoly, financed by a Japanese loan, Mr. Fuller snapped, "There can be no question that the concern was established for the express purpose of extending and exploiting the smoking of opium!" Across the League table, as these charges were hurled, sat Japan...
...CRIMSON conducted a Beauty Contest? We have seen nothing about it in any of the Daily papers (CRIMSON included). By what right does some one person pick out "the most beautiful secretary in Harvard"? Have some of the rest of us who bloom unseen in Widener, University, Lehman, and many other halls, museums, and laboratories no right to be considered? Has someone been around to all the offices, mentally recording each one's beauty? If not, a tour of the University offices might unearth a few more beautiful secretaries. (Name withheld by request...
Botanists realized again last week that "century plant" is a complete misnomer for the American aloe (Agave americana). In Mexico where it is called the maguey it takes only 15 years or so to store up the energy to bloom. Unblooming, it looks like an ordinary ground-palm: a rosette of long, pointed leaves spreading out from a central core. When its time comes it hastily pokes up a huge flowering stalk, thick as a tree trunk, from 15 to 40 ft. high, tops it with a huge cauliflower sprig with hundreds of little white or yellow tubular flowers. After...
...replant it in the open and study its blossoming under natural conditions. Last month the stalk began to grow at the rate of an inch an hour, grew 15 feet high, put out 600 grey-green buds. For four successive weeks experts announced the century plant was about to bloom, but no bud opened. Crowds came to gape at the monster stalk, the sulky buds. Director Elmer D. Merrill apologized, "This plant is 50 years old and I guess it's got a right to be temperamental. . , . The rain. . . ." When a Park botanist saw one bud opening last week...
...Britain. From a stray orchid of the original Cattleya Gigas Alba, Mr. Lager acquired the piece of his own plant that flowered so lushly last week. There are seven bulbs on this. Soon he expects to have two plants in two pots. Only once a year does an orchid bloom. Not for generations can ordinary citizens expect to see the flowers of Alba...