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Home to the village on a litter of branches, torn...
...orbit widened to take in a dozen towns, its ratio of barter to cash went down, from 9-to-1 to 3-to-2. Not only food, but puppies, razor blades, coffins were offered in payment. A pig traded in the first year for a season ticket produced a litter the second year and started a profitable little sideline in hams. Today, as in the beginning, neither actors nor playwrights receive any cash. To such playwrights as Robert Sherwood, Noel Coward, Maxwell Anderson and Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw have gone hams for royalties. Shaw refused his, demanded spinach instead. Among...
...Chute had net sales of $1,928,400 (retail cost of parachutes: $180 to $300) and netted $398,321. After that record year's business it still had a record backlog of $1,000,000 in unfilled orders. Last week its backlog was a secret but the litter of cablegrams and war orders on the desk of its pink-cheeked, spectacled President George Waite was evidence that last year's sales and Jan. 1's backlog were marks that had long since been erased by the incoming tide...
...years Dr. Kelly has mastered enough hobbies to satisfy half-a-dozen ordinary men. His enormous library contains large sections on Africa, astronomy, bird life, reptiles, fungi, biography and geology. Books litter all his rooms, and jammed in every corner of Dr. Kelly's house are snakeskins, turtle shells, stuffed birds, a duck-billed platypus, buffalo legs. Up to a few years ago Dr. Kelly kept a zoo of 20-odd live snakes in a chamber...
...marsupials (pouch-bearers). The Western Hemisphere's only pouch-bearer, the opossum, is the lowest marsupial of all. Its young, born after a gestation of about 13 days, are only one-half inch long at birth, without fully-developed hind legs, sans eyes, sans ears or reflexes. A litter of 18 weighs about 1/15 oz., fits easily into an ordinary teaspoon (see cut). Because the opossum is born at such an early stage in its development it makes glad the hearts of embryologists...