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After serving as typhus consultant for the American and French zones in Germany, Snyder studied the role of micro-organisms and insects in public health at the Rockefeller Foundation...
Rain Brain. An electronic grid that touches off a buzzer alarm in the house when rain strikes it was put on the market by Micro-Moisture Controls. Inc. of Mineola. N.Y. Price...
...surveys small accurate scale currents formed in spinning parabaloid bowl as nozzle at right blows air into water. Workman (above) is shown adjusting a newly designed Nansen bottle for gathering selected samples of water from the depths. Observers (lower left) watch special experiment in bowl and (below) watch growing micro organisms in multicolored tanks...
...Laughs." At the Brawley races last week, racketing and roaring around the one-eighth-mile track, the little micros hit it up as high as 60 m.p.h. on the straightaways (record for the track: 11.8 sec.). Remarked one micro-midgeter: "When you're that close to the ground, 60 miles an hour is a hell of a lot faster than 120 in a standard-size car." Ward Swarthout's micro had a field day, beginning with two seconds and two firsts in the day's early events...
...twelve-car main event, two micros smashed up on a turn, three others spun out, another broke a steering-column pin, climbed a bank and hit a fence; but as usual no one was hurt-in fact, in four years of micro racing, the most serious injury any driver has suffered is a broken elbow. Swarthout, who races "strictly for the laughs," since there is no prize money for micro addicts, buzzed home first in the main race. Afterward, the hat was passed, and the drivers collected $276.72 for the March of Dimes. Grinned Top-Winner Swarthout...