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Like most museums, the New York Botanical Garden refuses to name its hideaway, lest passionate amateur collectors burgle its treasures. Its 50,000 type specimens include plants gathered by the Lewis & Clarke Expedition, by Explorer John C. Frémont (first Republican candidate for President), the first surveyors of the U.S.-Mexican border...
Cross-Ups. In Philadelphia, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Früs sued a telegraph company for $15,000 for the "anguish" they said they had been caused when Mr. Friis received a misdirected telegram from a strange woman...
...PAID HITLER - Fr!tz Thyssen - Farrar & Rinehart...
This tool has been in the hands of science only a short time. Only in 1934 did Irene Curie* and her husband, Frédéric Joliot, first make ordinary elements such as iron and iodine radioactive so that they give off sub-atomic particles and gamma rays just as radium does. The invention of the cyclotron, Ernest Orlando Lawrence's great atom-smashing machine in California, simplified the manufacture of such elements so that they are now commonplace in physical laboratories. And in Copenhagen in 1935 O. Chiewitz and G. Hevesy first used such artificial radioactive elements...
...Advertising consists mainly of petites annonces at ten to 20 francs a line (50 fr. for annonces for missing children...