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...year-old San Francisco banker, tossed peanuts to the animals in the zoo named after him (where, in 1936, the chimpanzee squirted him with a mouthful of water), suddenly fell into the hippopotamus pool. Fleishhacker landed in nine feet of water, was rescued before he rolled under 2,500 Ib. Puddles...
...city if necessary. His wingspread is 150 ft., 46 ft. longer than his cousins', the newer B-173, only 62 ft. shorter than that of his nephew, the lumbering, dullard Douglas B19. Grandpappy has clippings to show that, in 1939, he carried a pay load of 31,205 Ib. (total weight: 74,000 Ib.) to a height of 8,200 ft. This eclipsed the Russian record by 1,638 ft., 2,545 Ib...
...smelt situation was so described last week by Dr. John Van Oosten of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The vast smelt population of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron (where some 95% of U.S. fresh water smelts lived) had suddenly vanished. Two years ago fishermen took 5,000,000 Ib. of smelts there; last year, 1,000,000. Total catch this winter: 2 Ib. No one knew why the smelts had died...
Debussy: Images Nos. 1 & 3 (San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor; 4 sides). Seldom performed, never before recorded, Debussy's Gigues and Rondes de Printemps have never been so popular as Image No. 2, better known by its subtitle Ibéria. Nor are they quite up to Ibéria as music. Performance: excellent. Recording: excellent...
...suggestion of some of the more feverish U.S. woolgrowers that the enormous stock be tossed into the sea in a modern version of the Boston Tea Party the liquidation was conducted along orthodox lines. With great dignity N.W.M.C. held a two-day auction in Boston, sold 23 million Ib. of wool at prices below the cost of homegrown wools. In Salt Lake City, the National Wool Growers Association was grimly mum. In San Antonio, the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association bleated: "The trade is taking these wools in preference to ours...