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...litters they occasionally turn up, had been experimenting with them since 1931. But progress was small because furriers considered them worth less freaks and ranchers were ignorant of Mendel's laws of heredity. Larry Moore, who understood Mendel, persuaded other ranchers that the laws could be used to breed silverblus and dollars. Last week one bundle of Moore's furs brought the auc tion's top prices, $265 a skin, netting him over $50,000 for his 337 pelts. But he regretfully foresees a fall in price as silver blus become more numerous...
...little quality of voluptuousness was revealed by Lily in undress. The thighs seemed wider and harp-shaped, the cups of the bust, tiny, separate and high." Oleander Watterson, Lily's maid, was an ex-convict, six feet tall, with a torchlight personality, headlight eyes, "neither Negro nor half-breed," possessing "a fierce magnificence of Indian-colored flesh, high cheekbones that had been heavily rouged and then powdered over, big, bold, red dened mouth." She wore a transparent dress around the house, knew all the scandal there was to know. She had known Lily's mother in jail. (More...
...Runaway Millionaire. An 18-year-old Oklahoma half-breed Indian had disappeared. Several years later oil was discovered on land allotted to the boy, and his father claimed the royalties. The only evidence of the boy's death was a skeleton buried in Arkansas, where the father said his son had been killed riding a freight...
...this week that "serious and prolonged operations" would be necessary (see p. 32). Chennault's hatred of the Jap is deep and fierce. He broods over his hard task, listens sympathetically when his officers say: "The way to kill flies is to pour gasoline on maggots where they breed. Flyswatter stuff isn't going to win the war." Chennault knows that maggots breed within the great cities of Japan, and that the only place from which they may now be reached is China. But he smiles his hawk's smile and says: "I've been sitting...
Statisticians control officers are a new breed; a product of this war. As the Air Forces moved overseas into every nook and cranny of the four corners, a new method had to be devised to keep G.H.Q. informed of the conditions in every field. To meet this need the scientists devised the statisticians control officer and the A.A.F. Stat School...