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Admiral Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, and his clique of aristocratic Magyar officials had long sought to regain for their country some of its vanished power and glory. From the ceiling-high windows of their brownstone government building in Pest they surveyed Buda spread out in a quiet arc. They looked down the sluggish Danube, past the austere statue of their patron, Saint Stephen, and felt themselves ordained and inevitable monarchs of all they saw and all they could take...
Although Professor Clark maintained that Indian Independence would not be practical in the present crisis, with the legions of Japan at the India borders, Pest Masani, a native of India, stated that nothing would be any worse than the present situation...
...insect pest, for example, must first be compared and classified before it can be efficiently combated. Evolutionary changes, which only careful comparison can verify, have appeared in some species since the type specimen was first chosen, a century or two ago. And, though any curator can catch a Musca domestica (or housefly) in his own soup, he would probably give his right ear to have the original type. Among other items selected for bomb-sheltering from the Smithsonian collection (valued at $300,000,000 but irreplaceable, says one of its officers, at three times that figure...
Heroes of the boom were an unassuming shark called Galeorhinus zyopterus and a San Francisco fish broker named T. J. ("Tano") Guaragnella. Fishermen had always considered Galeorhinus a piscivorous, tackle-snarling, bait-swallowing pest whose carcass brought only $10 a ton for fertilizer, though Chinese sometimes bought his fins for soup. But shrewd Fish Buyer Guaragnella had a hunch. Seeing a huge Galeorhinus liver, he had it tested, found it was 100 times as rich in vitamin A as cod liver...
Further information may be had at the following Naval Reserve Recruiting Offices, 13th Floor, 150 Causeway St., Boston; Naval Reserve Armory, Old Pest Office Building, Portland Maine, where a few minutes heart-to-heart talk with an understanding officer will help you and where your particular talents can be used to your advantage and Uncle...