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...bland Arkansas and Arizona. Genital defects were excessively high in the Northwest. Testicular defects formed a track from Montana to Iowa, hypospadias from Montana to Illinois. Hermaphrodites were more common in the Northwest. Spina bifida, on the other hand, was apparently high at both the northeastern and the northwestern extremes of the U. S and in addition, formed a track from Nebraska through Missouri and Tennessee to South Carolina...
...When we examine the draft statistics for the northwestern States we deal with a population that has been exposed to the severe climatic conditions of the region for only two generations, since the mass of the population has been settled there since 1880 Here we have a new stock exposed to unusually severe climatic conditions and, in addition, living at a relatively high altitude. . . Here we have the genital malformations in the region of the cyclonic infall and along the storm tracks. Is it not likely that these malformations, which would tend to diminish in frequency in an older, permanently...
...Northwestern University (Evanston Ill.) President Arthur Cutts Willard of the University of Illinois.... LL.D. Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes.... LL.D...
Chicago-born 35 years ago, Robert Bogue graduated from Northwestern in parasitology, went to Johns Hopkins, later to the University of London's college of physiology and medical entomology. When War came he went to France to supervise latrine sanitation, iodization and chlorination of water, delousing. Using a pipette constantly he occasionally got a mouthful of tainted blood. That and the gum-hardening effect of precautionary alcohol gargles lost him all but a few of his teeth. He is married, has two children...
...gnat swarm which descended on Arkansas last month (TIME, May 7) usually catch entomologists as well as farmers off guard, but against better known enemies spring surveys are conducted to find out how they survived the winter. Reports this year were far from heartening. Grasshoppers, No. 1 bane of Northwestern grain farmers, got through a mild winter in enormous numbers. Chinch bug mortality in the Midwest was only 3%. In Indiana and Kansas 93% of Hessian flies emerged unscathed from their underground puparia. Millions of Mormon crickets came safely through in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming. Montana. Bitter cold in the East...