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...grown in Siberia, apricots that bloom on snow-covered trees just south of the Arctic Circle, a fruitless lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract when pressed, frost-resisting grapes that flourish in Moscow and the Ural uplands. Undoubtedly he has produced fruits that yield more abundantly, stand shipment better and grow farther north than the older varieties. To bring out ever new mutations, he shocks with electricity the seeds of apples, watermelons, almonds, squash, plums. Oranges and grapefruit developed by him are grown in the "Soviet Florida" on the Black Sea. Tireless in his old age, he works...
...your issue of Sept. 10 on p. 10 under the heading Money, referring to a shipment of gold bullion from San Francisco to Denver mint, appears the statement, "each mail truck carried one ton of the root of all evil...
...British Guiana was even more backward than it is today. Georgetown, its capital, did not then boast two 40-bed hotels. That year the colonists ran out of stamps, printed a small issue on a newspaper press to tide them over until the arrival of a shipment of regular stamps from England. Only one stamp of that issue is known to exist today. It is the most valuable stamp in the world...
...Francisco last week was the starting point of what was described as the greatest gold shipment of all time. Two billions in bullion, one-third of all the gold in the land, began to move 1,440 mi. to the U. S. Mint at Denver. And 1,796 mi. farther east, beneath a huge portrait of Benjamin Franklin in his big new Washington office, sat the bald-headed man who was morally, physically and financially responsible for the fabulous shipment. By law it was up to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley to get the Government's gold from mint door...
...rumor but a fact was the shipment of 400 tons of silver from London to the U. S. and a return shipment of $7,800,000 in gold from New York to Europe. Since the Treasury now legally owns all domestic silver and is not obliged to buy silver abroad, this governmental swapping of gold for silver stirred fresh confusion over the Administration's money policies...