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About 1000 species were collected on the expedition, including 100 unknown before. In addition to the discovery of the Ceylon ant, the expedition fulfilled two major purposes; expanding the insect holdings of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and collecting and studying data on the distribution and behavior of ants from Fiji to Australia...
...weeks later Bill had a movie contract ($50 a week) but what about a name? "Beedle!" exclaimed a Paramount executive. "It sounds like an insect." Just then his secretary announced that William Holden, a West Coast newsman, was on the wire. That took care of the name, now all Bill needed was a part. Fate got busy again. Over at Columbia, Director Rouben Mamoulian saw Bill's screen test, grabbed him for the title role of Golden Boy, the Clifford Odets play about a young pug who could hit like Marciano and fiddle like Paganini...
...Such childish nonsensel! Ach ja, Hitler did lose the war for us, but did we not suffer enough? I am no Nazi . . ." Nodding heads in the group indicated that no one was, or indeed ever had been, a Nazi. ". . . but trying to force your Democracy on us like an insect spray, ja it was too silly...
...foresters. He pointed out that much of the increased sawtimber growth ratio comes from less important hardwoods, while softwoods, in huge demand for construction and papermaking, were cut down in 1952 almost one-third faster than they grew. The quality of timber, he said, is declining. Control of insect pests, which in 1952 killed 5 billion board feet of sawtimber (seven times the toll of fire), has not gone far enough. Nor have the growth ratios increased enough; by the year 2000, the Forest Service guesses, U.S. demand for non-fuel timber will be from 70% to 100% bigger than...
...planet of Metaluna to help their hard-pressed host fight off some neighboring spacemen. The interplanetary war that follows has Metaluna looking like a giant pinball machine screaming "Tilt!" in seven different colors. What with dodging flaming meteors and grappling with odious mutants (half-human and half-insect monsters that have a weakness for female earthlings), Rex and Faith are mighty lucky to grab a seat on the last spaceship back to earth...