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...mysterious "mosaic disease" or "yellows" which attacks peach trees, tobacco, sugar cane, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, corn, sugar beets, asters, dahlias et al. was found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel...
...holding the baby. At one refueling stop Jimmy Wedell borrowed an overcoat. At 1:57 a. m., 11 hr. after leaving Houston, the plane landed on Baltimore's snow-encrusted airport. An ambulance sped the Trammells to Johns Hopkins where Dr. Dandy's associate, Dr. Paul A. Kunkel, confirmed the Houston diagnosis of hydrocephalus...
Several months ago, Dr. John Kunkel Small of the New York Botanical Garden took a train ride through the Mississippi delta, looked out of the window with his knowing botanical eye at the lush growth of the southern swamps. Suddenly he saw something which made him want to stop the train-a swamp full of giant iris such as a Paul Bunyan might have planted. Soon as possible Dr. Small went back to the spot with two botanical friends. The iris grew seven feet tall, like young trees. They bore immense rainbow colored blossoms. The botanists floundered with difficulty about...
...Illinois, dimly seen in fog that blanketed Chanute Field (Rantoul, Ill.), two rapid specks collided head on, crumpled, fell together 400 feet to earth where they wrecked themselves but did not catch fire. They were planes manned by four Army officers?Capt. Harold G. Foster, First Lieut. Henry W. Kunkel, First Lieut. Albert J. Clayton, Second Lieut. Ralph L. Lawter?all of whom were killed. A board of inquiry found that the pilots had approached each other at their ships' "blind angles," each being invisible from the other's cockpit...
...second set, the Japanese star and his partner began to hit the ball harder, and contenting themselves for the most part with remaining in the back of the court, they depended on the severity of their drives to keep the Kunkel brothers from making any placements from the net position. Briggs and Harada took that set 6-1, and thereafter had the match well in hand, the score of the third and fourth sets being...