Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the eternal secret weapon reappeared in the news. At La Linea, next to Gibraltar, "a strange craft looking like the hybrid offspring of a torpedo and a launch" - ten feet long, equipped with a seat on either side slightly abaft the beam, drawn by a propeller in the nose, gasoline-motivated - was found on the beach. Its motor was still running and its crew had disappeared...
Last week's "hybrid" was a development of the piloted torpedo of Pola. Reports indicated that the war head exploded harmlessly at the harbor entrance. The attack therefore failed. But it served notice on the British that their superiority in the Mediterranean will be challenged not by the wide-open sea battle every British manjack wants, but by Italian ingenuity...
...Improve wild rubber production. Inferiority is not inherent, is caused by ignorant siringueiros indiscriminately tapping any or all of 14 different varieties of rubber tree, so that the bacia (caldron) produces a hybrid bolacha. Remedy: teach them to confine themselves to the Hevea brasiliensis and scientific tapping of trees...
...movie season swung into high gear, Hollywood began peppering U. S. theatres thick & fast with a hybrid collection of pictures. Some of the fair, good and best were...
...Membership, 120,000. Others: American Farm Bureau Federation, 2,950,000; National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, 800,000; National Cooperative Council, 1,500,000. *The Wallace Family still has a small interest in a firm for producing hybrid seed corn. Wallaces' Farmer and Iowa Homestead (whose poll last week showed Iowa farmers 34% for Roosevelt, 34% for Willkie, 32% undecided) passed out of the Wallace control early in the depression...