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Mushrooms, he learned, are fungi developed from spores which float in the air, too small to be seen by the naked eye. By a process still kept secret, he isolated mushroom spores in little bottles where they developed into spawn in a mixture of sifted manure. Nowadays the Jacob laboratories sell these whitish-brown lumps for 50? a quart ready for planting. The Jacob plant gets most of its manure which must be from "horses which are working hard and fed with grain and mixed feeds only," from Philadelphia and Baltimore, pays about $6.50 per ton, uses 20,000 tons...
When it became apparent that the plane was down, the Itasca steamed hopelessly to the search without any idea where to look. Experts believed that the plane would float a long time if undamaged in landing and if the weather was good. But a Navy flying boat that set out from Hawaii was turned back by a severe, freakish ice storm. Then came the first faint radio signals, which soon were reported by amateurs in Cincinnati, Wyoming, San Francisco and Seattle, by the British cruiser Achilles in the South Pacific, by Pan American Airways in Hawaii. Though all that could...
...therefore licked their chops when he arrived in Berlin. They gave him an honorary degree, got an unnamed industrialist to cough up 100,000 Reichsmarks for Chinese students to visit Germany, finally hinted that Germany would love to export machinery and other goods to China if Dr. Kung would float another international loan to pay for them. But wily Dr. Kung shattered their hopes by saying that China has learned her lesson in international loans, is now interested only in commercial credits. Then he left for the U. S. where last week he speedily made a deal...
Tears are constantly secreted by glands which get their water from the blood and lie just above the outer curve of each eyeball. Tears float slowly over the eyeballs and drain into the nose and throat through two holes at the inner corner of each eye. Ordinarily this flow & drainage of tears is imperceptible, and serves simply to keep the eyeballs clean and slippery. But dirt or stinging stuff in the eyes makes those glandular reservoirs suddenly empty in a protective local reflex. The excess causes weeping, sniffling and gulping, for hard crying produces more tears than the tear ducts...
...Pensacola Bay 18 months ago after flying up from South America, had been rebuilt, would soon start test flights across the North Atlantic. Lufthansa last week announced that it would start test flights to the U. S. in the first week of July with "the two biggest two-float hydroplanes ever constructed." These trim monoplanes, called Nordmeer and Nordwind, are powered by four Diesel engines apiece, have a cruising speed of 155 m.p.h. Designed for mail only, they will be catapulted by German ships at each end as were the two Lufthansa planes which test-flew the Atlantic last summer...