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Though the gods drank nectar, pollen would have been far better for them: pollen (which is a male reproductive spore) is a startlingly rich source of proteins and fats, contains carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. This discovery was announced last week by James I. Hambleton, chief U.S. apiarist at Beltsville, Md. Apiarist Hambleton and co-workers have invented a trap to collect pollen by the ton: a screen doorstep in front of a beehive, which brushes pollen off the hairy legs of bees and drops it into a box below. As much as 70 lb. of pollen can be gathered each...
There were also nine other naval launchings during the week, as the 35,000-ton battleship Massachusetts, five destroyers and three minesweepers went down the ways. Two of the destroyers, the Hambleton and Rodman, launched in a twin ceremony at Kearny, N.J., were a month behind schedule. Reason: the shipbuilders' strike that finally forced Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. to turn over its property to the Navy...
...flying unit in the War managed to have so good a time along with the business of fighting, in which the 95th performed ably if not as spectacularly as Rickenbacker's 94th. The roster of 95 included many a youthful socialite-Seth Low, Sumner Sewall, John Hambleton, Quentin Roosevelt, Sigourney Thayer. In the most trying circumstances they succeeded in maintaining a clublike atmosphere at the squadron bar. Capt. Buckley, a member of the squadron, last year compiled its intimate family lies and friends. Lately he was persuaded to issue it to the public. It is detailed, vivid, gaily dressed...
Died. Thomas Edward Hambleton, 44, president of Hambleton & Co., Baltimore investment bankers, brother of the late Lieut.-Colonel John A. Hambleton who was vice president of Pan American Airways, killed last year in an airplane accident; by his own hand, after returning from a hunting trip to Indo-China and finding his wife had gone to Reno to seek divorce; in Lutherville...
Died. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hambleton, 31, Lindbergh-friend, Baltimore banker and vice president of Pan American Airways, with J. Von der Heyden, sales director of Consolidated Instrument Co. of New York, and Mrs. Von der Heyden; at Wilmington, N. C., when their plane crashed on a week-end flight. Both men were expert flyers. Earlier last week Flyer Von der Heyden took New York Governor Roosevelt's wife on her first flight...