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...adult male quetzal flies slowly and gracefully, swirling its long tail plumes to dodge branches. It lives only in a few damp jungles or rain forests at altitudes of 5,000 ft. or more, nests in hollow trees perforated by woodpeckers. From the nests, which are hard to find, the young can be taken during the nesting season. Surprised in their sleep, adults can occasionally be caught by hand. Natives also captured live adults for von Hagen by stunning them in the open with slingshots. If confined after capture, the grown birds are likely to beat themselves to death, unless...
Owing to the crowding of people into damp bomb shelters, public health services have observed an increase in the number of respiratory diseases and fear a repetition of the influenza epidemic which took such a large toll throughout the world during the last war, Dr. Gordon remarked...
...nest over "a particularly detestable, low-down British weapon": the "self-igniting leaf." This was described as a three-inch cardboard or celluloid card with a cut-out centre, into which was pasted a flat core of guncotton and phosphorus. When dropped by night, the cards were slightly damp. When they dried out-it might take ten minutes or ten years, depending on where they fell-the reaction of oxygen on phosphorus made them burst into flame. This weapon, railed the Germans, was "obviously directed against the German youth, the German harvest. . . ." Officials complained that simple burghers picked the cards...
They burrowed underground like gophers, into damp shelters and subways where they slept on hard benches, on concrete floors or sitting upright like yogis. Those who had worked hard all day slept most easily. Chief bores were oldsters, who kept others awake chattering about the raids, and all those, young & old, who snored. Official "shelter shakers" moved about waking the snorers; and apartment-house porters became self-appointed Admirable Crichtons, supervising sleeping arrangements, moving furniture, brewing...
...Swiss-born Camille Dreyfus, president of $66,000,000 Celanese Corp., has never felt the damp hand of deficit-even in 1932 Celanese cleared $891,866, in 1933 $5,453,903, in 1939 $6,216,781. Last week, getting ready to float a $25,000,000 debenture issue ($15,000,000 new money), he titillated the stockmarket by reporting the best six-month earnings in Celanese history...