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While President Roosevelt was last week telling newshawks in his air-cooled White House office how he proposed to inspect the drought area next month, a pert newshawk asked if by any chance he would make a few political speeches on that trip. A deep frown gullied the President's face. Drought, he snapped, was much too serious to mix with politics...
...daily wastes of Los Angeles' 1,250,000 inhabitants to the Pacific Ocean constitute as remarkable an engineering achievement as the main which brings pure water over mountains from a lake 233 miles away. The main channels of the Los Angeles sewers measure 50 miles in length. To inspect them, to see that they were free of corrosion and cracks, has been the job for the past 16 years of a husky, ruddy, straw-haired athlete named Reuben Brown, 45, assistant superintendent of sewer maintenance. Mr. Brown enjoys his inspections, has in the course of them made many...
...Black has made his living for 16 years by collecting fossils and sea creatures, and never in all that time had he seen anything like the rotting monster he dug out of the sands of Copalis Beach, near Seattle. Neither had any of the people who flocked to inspect it last week. All they could think of was sea serpent. It was eight feet long, weighed about 1,300 Ib. It had a head like a goat's, but much larger; teeth like a dog's; a body which began like a buffalo's and tapered...
...screen in Secret Agent because he admired Director Hitchcock, wanted to learn his methods at first hand. After each day's shooting at Gaumont's suburban studio, he scurried back to London to appear on the stage as Romeo. U. S. theatregoers will get a chance to inspect Actor Gielgud (pronounced Gillgood) in person next autumn when, under Producer Guthrie McClintic, he brings his Hamlet to the Manhattan stage...
...sympathies gravitated toward his deposed predecessor, Mr. Peek, however, and a few months ago President Roosevelt bundled him off to Europe to inspect foreign farm conditions. It was after that trip that Mr. Davis made the curious suggestion that one good way to promote foreign farm markets was to withhold exports of U. S. automobiles from countries which did not buy U. S. wheat, cotton, pork, etc. Lately Mr. Davis has often been reported on the verge of resignation from the Department of Agriculture. That might have had political repercussion among farmers, who like Mr. Davis and would naturally conclude...