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...Leaf-killing dust. A prime drawback in mechanical picking is that leaves get collected along with the cotton. To get cleaner cotton, the Hopson plantation, before harvesting, defoliated the plants with cyanamid dust dropped from a plane...
Thousands of people in homes and in the streets felt the instant blast of furnace heat, blinked at the puzzling light. In a house a block from the tanks Mrs. Charles Flickinger plugged in her vacuum cleaner, and started back. At the same instant the walls glared red and the curtains caught fire. A surveyor stared at the towering flames, automatically sighted past a factory roof and a chimney and found the fire reached to 11½° above the horizon. He pulled out a slide rule and calculated its height-2,800 feet. Within minutes crowds of men, women...
...bassoon what a double bass (bass viol) is to the cello. In its long evolution since Handel wrote for it, it has changed from a vague resemblance to a child's coffin to a strong resemblance to an overcomplicated vacuum cleaner. Its 20-odd feet of wooden tubing are capable of emitting the lowest-sounds known to orchestral music-lower than any at the left end of a piano keyboard. To everybody but a contrabassoonist, its Stygian burps sound like abysmal Bronx cheers...
...look like from the air. Designed by the H. K. Ferguson Co., industrial engineers and builders, of Cleveland and New York, the plan is the result of a year's research. The aim: to make the factory a community asset by hiding machinery connections, replacing boiler houses with cleaner, more sightly power sources, etc., and to give the employes ideal working conditions. For management, designers stress the value of the "air view," in that an attractive plant is a potential sales story for plane travelers...
Sued for Divorce. Johnny Weissmuller, 39, thrice-married swimmer-turned-cinema-Tarzan; by Beryel Laura Scott Weissmuller, 28, San Francisco rug cleaner's daughter, mother of Weissmuller's three; after four years of marriage, her first; in Los Angeles...