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Last week came longer dispatches from Shanghai. The creature was definitely a giant panda, a six-week-old female 16 inches long, weighing 4 Ib. 12 oz. To capture it, Mrs. Harkness had spent $20.000. She hoped to sell it to a U. S. zoo for $15,000. But just as she was about to take it aboard the U. S.-bound Empress of Russia, Chinese customs officials seized it on the grounds that she had obtained no export permit. In near-hysteria Mrs. Harkness spent the night in the Shanghai customs house, nursing her precious cub from a bottle...
About the size of a black bear, weighing 200 to 300 Ib., the giant panda has long, creamy fur, black forelegs and shoulders, black ears, black circles around its eyes, cat-like feet. It eats bamboo shoots. Natives call it beishung (white bear) and scientists call it Ailuropus melanoleucus. So scarce is it that when the Roosevelts shot theirs, inhabitants of the nearest village, 25 miles distant, had never seen or heard of such a creature...
Recuperated from a five-month illness during which he underwent three operations for an intestinal ailment, pale Democratic Boss Thomas J. ("Tom") Fendergast trudged out of Kansas City's Menorah Hospital 65 Ib. lighter than when he entered. Present weight: 175 Ib...
...these slow streams, in a region 150 miles long and about 50 miles wide, were the great rice plantations that before the Civil War made the South Carolina Low Country "the most prosperous area on the continent." In 1850 it had 446 plantations, each producing more than 20,000 Ib...
...rice annually (the total Carolina yield now being 159,930,613 Ib.), with each plantation surrounded by low flooded fields, serpentine embankments, miles of "translucent grain." Life on the Rice Coast was an amiable, well-fed, leisurely affair, with planters' incomes ranging from $5,000 to $70,000 a year, with "factors"' in the cities taking care of all buying and selling and regular crops requiring careful but not arduous attention. Even the many slaves had an easier time of it than elsewhere in the South, since their labor was usually finished between one and four...