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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long-suffering Andrew Cairns, resident secretary in London of the International Wheat Advisory Commission created by the World Wheat Conference of 21 agrarian nations including the U. S. (TIME, July 3 et. seq.), sent out invitations last week for a super-gloomy meeting...
...Belgian named George Nagelmackers visited the U. S. in the 1860's, purchased the patent of the Mann Railway Sleeping Car Carriage, precursor of Puliman. In Brussels he founded what is now La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens (The International Company of Sleeping Cars and of Great European Expresses). This firm, called Wagons-Lits for short, not only supplies individual dining and sleeping cars to European railways, much as Pullman does to U. S. railways, but also makes up entire trains (except the locomotives), and arranges with a score of governments to run them...
...mysterious "mosaic disease" or "yellows" which attacks peach trees, tobacco, sugar cane, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, corn, sugar beets, asters, dahlias et al. was found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel...
...Paris the trial of assorted spies for Germany and Russia who were betrayed to the Sûreté Nationale by their friends, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange, N. J. (TIME, March 26, 1934, et seq.), buzzed on last week. Two star female prisoners continued to rely for acquittal on daily exhibitions in court of babies born to them in jail...
...Herald. Into court marched irate Publisher Meyer, insisting that the old contracts (with Chicago Tribune Syndicate) belonged to him alone (TIME, July 24, 1933). For the next 20 months, while lawyers wrangled, injunctions were issued and dismissed, and the case climbed from court to court, Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle et al. appeared both in the Post and the Herald...