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...jumped to 100,000 diameters and more. Light is a train of waves; to pick some tiny body out of the unseen, the waves must find it big enough to get hold of. If the body is much smaller than the wave length, it will slip through like a mosquito through a fishing net. Electron beams are also wave trains, but their wave lengths are thousands of times shorter than those of light. So, in effect, they give scientists a collecting net of far finer mesh...
...Mosquito Boats...
...hired 380 natives (all who could be found and persuaded to work) to build hangars and clear two 6,200-foot runways. Those with malaria worked three hours a day; those without, five hours. Because they had no place to spend their wages. Pan Am brought in clothing, iceboxes, mosquito nets to give them something to work for. Close to completion last week, Barreiras airport is, in the opinion of Pan Amian Blotner, the finest landing field in the Western Hemisphere. It is also an excellent potential base for U. S. Army planes...
...Russia, that Baltic power, was ready to flex her muscles. On National Navy Day there were demonstrations, maneuvers, parades on all Russia's seas. People's Commissar for Navy Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov declared that 168 new Russian "warships"-many of which may be mosquito torpedo boats, which the Russians love-would be launched this year; and newspapers boasted that soon the Red Navy would be second to none other...
...that one Leonard Franceschini, an Italian naturalized a Canadian but considered Fascist, has been one of the Dominion's most successful war-order getters. As the ubiquitous president of the Dufferin Paving & Crushed Stone, Ltd., Franceschini last January got a $3,500,000 Government order to build mosquito boats and in February a $2,000.000 order to turn out shell casings. Three days after Italy entered the war Franceschini was arrested, interned. Government custodians are now trying to run the plants this suspect fifth columnist hastily got together...