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...Among the things the animals will eat during one year are: 1,600 frogs, 50 pounds of dried flies, 220 pounds of ant eggs, 1,300 chameleons, besides such usual food as carrots, beef, bananas, apples, grain. Daintiest feeder is the pigmy marmoset, which, for meat, eats only the smallest young lizards...
...opening of the Aqueduct track on Long Island, bookmakers shuddered to hear that in one day he had won $100,000. So far no one has computed how much Rooney has lost, but he is reputed to have $100,000 of his winnings salted safely away in annuities. His smallest, typically lucky wager was $400 he won last fortnight by betting that Tommy Farr would stay 15 rounds against Joe Louis...
...week before Labor Day traditionally marks an ebb of financial activity. Last week's was not only ebb but neap tide. Trading in bonds on the New York Stock Exchange one day was only $3,730,000, smallest since 1918. Volume of August stock trading had totaled only 17,220,000 shares, smallest for that month since 1934. Gloom hung so heavy in Wall Street that a seat on the Exchange sold for $75,000, lowest price since April 1935. On the sole million-share day last week 143 issues found new lows. On a recession not so great...
...East Indies, are sturdy, dark and rather lazy. Not so long ago, however, some of them bestirred themselves enough to go out and capture a pair of anoas, dwarf buffalo. They were beautiful anoas, about the color of Jersey cows. The male 85 lb., the female 75 Ib. The smallest of wild cattle, they belong to one of a number of rare species peculiar to Celebes and three small islands nearby.* Dutch officials were overjoyed when this latest captured pair was brought in. Forthwith the anoas were shipped off to The Netherlands Government zoo at Surbaya, Java, which generously gave...
...word for routine editing to 8? a word for articles on technical subjects requiring considerable research. They handle about 20 jobs a week and expect to gross about $100,000 this year. Their largest fee so far was $1,900 for the annual report of a corporation. Smallest was from a man in Panama who sent in a check for $5 asking for a brief and suitable expression for his daughter's wedding breakfast...