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Typical of those busily sprouting bulbs into a big business is Tony Cefalu (pronounced sefi-allo), 50, a roly-poly, Sicilian-born ex-tavernkeeper. Like most of the others, Tony is growing the Croft, a white, sturdy, strong-stemmed Easter lily that multiplies at the rate of 150 bulbs from one bulb a season, will grow 20,000 to the acre. Although now well on his way to becoming the Lily King of the North west, Tony almost muffed his chance at the throne...
...long will the boom last? The Department of Agriculture estimates this year's lily-bulb crop at no more than 3,000,000. At the present rate of expansion it would take about five years, with careful cultivation, to meet the demand, and bring prices down. Even then, bulb growers believe that Japan will never regain her monopoly of the U.S. market...
...columns, Washington Merry-Go-Rounder Pearson rehashed some old stories about McKellar's choleric temper and his insatiable hunger for patronage. That afternoon the bulb-nosed Senator took advantage of a large audience, proceeded to bellow for over an hour what he chose to title "Personal Statement about a Lying Human Skunk." Excerpts: "Pearson is just an ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar, even if he is a paid liar. . . . When a man is a natural-born liar, a liar during his manhood and all the time, a congenital liar, a liar by profession, a liar...
...platyfish, not an egg-layer, bears live young. To make sure that their baby platyfish got a germ-free start, the researchers bathed the mother fish in alcohol, ether and iodine, made a Caesarean incision and gently sucked the young out of the germless oviduct with a rubber bulb, taking care not to rupture the germ-packed intestines. Then they popped the baby fishes into warm, sterile water, later transferred them to sterile, stoppered milk bottles...
...Argentina cheese, and that is very high. I think it runs to 35? a pound. So if you buy a little piece for your Sunday dinner, it costs about 15?, and I tell you it is no bigger than this little ball (he held up a small flash bulb). Fifteen cents or maybe 20, whatever the butcher charges. That is what you get when he puts it on the scale and that is the conditions in our department, gentlemen...