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...three-phase 60-cycle hum of the heaters in the furnace was to his ear "an exact representation of the noise one hears as a female mosquito visits one in the night, and one endeavors to crush the annoying creature by a slap of the hand on the side of the face where the pest appears to be ready to draw blood from the victim of its attention...
Reasoned he: "Can it be possible that this hum . . . serves as an attraction for the males which gather where the noise is prevalent? Certainly, if the male can be drawn to a spot and cooked, then the egg-laying power of the female would be curtailed, and we shall have a great diminution in the mosquito population, provided the above reasoning is in accordance with fact and provided devices are developed to produce a three-phase 60-cycle hum where mosquitoes are bred and spread about, with means for destroying the mosquitoes which are so attracted. They may be burned...
...first production cost $155, realized a fat profit for Big Bethel's trustee fund with admissions at 25?. Not very many white people have yet seen Heaven Bound but most of those who have were observed to look sorry with everyone else for the Wayward Girl, smile and hum in their throats when the Saints started singing...
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was sloppy. Prices floundered about aimlessly. Slowly the ticker printed out its daily 2:15 message: DELIVERY TIME. The hum of trading became slightly louder...
Seven minutes after Delivery Time, the visitor and his host from Pynchon & Co. were startled by the great electric gong which calls the Exchange to order. They saw Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley standing on the Rostrum, grave and silent. The hum of trading dwindled to awful silence. A moment later the ticker flashed to the ends of the country the message: PYNCHON & CO SUSPENDED FOR INSOLVENCY...