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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leopard were planted in her apartment, over her protests, until the monkey got loose, so disturbed other tenants that police were called. Miss Lamour (nee Slaton), 22, has never been nearer a jungle than the isthmus at Catalina Island, where parts of Hurricane were filmed. She is a 5 ft. 5 in., 117-lb., healthy, heavy-lipped New Orleans girl who won a beauty contest, went to Chicago, sang with Herbie Kay's orchestra on a "celebrity night" program, married...
...gladioli, begonias, dozens of other plants and vegetables-free from drought, disease, insects, floods, erosion (TIME, March 1). In a tank of 1,100 of an acre area he grew 1,226 Ib. of lush red tomatoes. His giant tobacco plants are especially impressive (see cut). From 25 sq. ft. of water he got 100 cantaloupes, declared this to be 20 times the yield expected from soil. Pushing against the roof of his greenhouse, with its massive roots in water, is an 18-ft. banana plant, now only eleven months old. Dr. Gericke's current researches are directed toward...
...Pillsbury and his associates were incorporated as Chemical Garden Co., with an initial capitalization of $10,000, and last week they were going ahead with plans to market chemicals at a price of $1 for 25 oz., and small steel tanks for $6 each. They have 11,000 sq. ft. of hydroponic tanks under experimental cultivation, have acquired the services of a trained plant physiologist. When Dr. Gericke heard of the enterprise, his principal comment was "Humph...
Unveiled last week in Springfield, Mass., was a homebuilt projector which cost less than $12,000. It was built by able, earnest Frank Korkosz, technician of Springfield's Museum of Natural History. Not dumbbell-shaped but spherical, the Korkosz instrument projects on a 40-ft. (diameter) hemispherical ceiling 7,150 of the naked eye and borderline stars visible in every direction from earth. Astronomers did not quite share Mr. Korkosz' belief that his machine works as well or nearly as well as a Zeiss instrument but they seemed to feel that any reasonably good projector is better than...
Returning from the races James ("Squibs") Thomas stumbled in the gloom of London's big, depressing Liverpool St. station, plunged headfirst into a 90-ft. mail bag post chute. Mrs. Thomas screamed, fainted. Husband James slithered downward in darkness, suddenly appeared on a moving belt in an underground post office. Three feet ahead on the wide belt danced his unharmed bowler hat. Mr. Thomas, likewise unharmed, was quickly sorted from the mail by postal employes, returned to his wife who cried, "Oh, Squibs...