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Many scientists accept the theory that sunlight influences conception and hence that Eskimos are sterile during the long Arctic nights. In last week's Science, Zoologist Wayne L. Whitaker of the University of Michigan rose to defend Eskimo potency. Analysis of all the births in West Greenland between the years 1901 and 1930 shows that more conceptions occurred in April, the first month of spring, and December, the Eskimos' visiting season, than in any other months. His conclusions: 1) whatever sexual debility may have been observed by early explorers is probably due to famine during the lone, cruel...
...last year Bridgeport Hydraulic Co., which supplies water to a large part of southwestern Connecticut, proposed to dam the Saugatuck, throwing it completely out of kilter. Local patriots rose to the defense of their river, with "Save the Saugatuck" their watchword. To defend groves threatened by the utility's axmen, women residents of the valley threatened to lash themselves to the trees. While Writers Stuart Chase and Deems Taylor protested, Fiddler Jascha Heifetz gave a "Save the Saugatuck" concert, devoted its proceeds to the cause...
...occasional minor reversals) some $20,000,000 a week in New York City, another $20,000,000 in the rest of the U. S. Last week, however, Federal Reserve summaries for reporting banks in 101 cities showed the trend had been reversed for three consecutive weeks of August: loans rose $30,000,000 in New York City, $11,000,000 outside. Though there is always a seasonal expansion in August and though there was a slump in the week before Labor Day, Reserve officials asserted that the figures indicated the beginning of recovery had come to commercial credit...
...figures this seemed most important, for if volume of commercial loans against securities was heavy (it sometimes ran more than 50% of the total) the indication was that the borrowing was not so much for commercial purposes as a mere hocking of securities to carry inventories, etc. Commercial loans rose at the end of 1936, for example, indicating apparently that business was expanding; actually much of the borrowing was to carry ponderous inventories; was therefore a sign of danger rather than optimism...
...show places of the U. S., Yaddo is a 500-acre estate with pine groves, vast lawns, artificial lakes with ducks, famous rose gardens, white marble fountains. The name Yaddo was a baby pronunciation given by the Trask children (all four of whom died in childhood) to The Shadows, a famous inn formerly on the site of the Trask estate, where the Trasks had spent their summers. It was one of the dozen places where Poe was supposed to have written The Raven, and Katrina Trask said it inspired her own poetry. At the centre of the estate...