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One Captain van Toch, blue-eyed, beery Dutch mariner, trading for pearls along the coast of Sumatra, made the first discovery: he found, in a little-visited bay on one of the islands, a family of giant newts that walked erect when on land, could be taught to use a...
Said the President's son-in-law's Post Intelligencer: "The President will visit Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams,* in which he is vitally interested and will study the progress of the projects and the effects on this district. . . ."
In the early stages of recovery the heavy industries such as steel lagged behind. So it was advisable to prime the pump by public works. Now. he said, the situation was reversed. The durable goods industries were making more rapid progress than the consumer goods industries. The prices of their...
Last week came news of another novel counterattack to an onslaught of Nature. Long ago the idea of diverting the river through tunnels was discarded as too expensive and too risky, and cellular coffer dams of sheet steel were built to keep the river out of the excavation area. Three...
Ducks Unlimited wants 1,000,000 Canadian acres for its duck preserve. It expects to get most land by grant, lease or easement, but will buy when necessary. First thing nesting ducks need is plenty of water, and Ducks Unlimited, tying in with Canada's prairie farms rehabilitation program...