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...newspaper reporter, and although he took time out to finish his education at Harvard, he continued to hold jobs in newspaper offices and publishing houses. Seven years ago he published his first scientific article in the Atlantic Monthly. Today, a small, ruddy, cheerful, white-haired man with a southwestern drawl he has a less effulgent reputation than any one of half-a-dozen British luminaries but he is probably one of the ablest popularizers of science writing in English...
...keep this year's crop from drugging the market, AAA officials in Washington held a conference with 100 representatives of growers, arranged for four general co-operative marketing associations to buy peanuts for diversion into by-products and oil instead of sending them directly to market. Last week southwestern growers were asking $65 a ton. Virginia growers as much as $80. The co-operatives will buy the surplus with RFC and AAA funds, may resell to the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. Co-operatives will, however, be free to turn their purchases back into normal trade channels if prices...
...southwestern South Dakota knot of mountains called the Black Hills are the richest U. S. gold mines, the camp where President Coolidge said "I do not choose to run," the bowl-like mountain valley out of which Major Albert William Stevens sailed his stratosphere balloon in 1935, the outstanding granite mountain whose top Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is blasting into the shape of Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's and Roosevelt's heads, the Wind Cave National Monument whose ten underground square miles have never been well explored, and the Fossil Cycad National Monument whose 360 acres...
...hours later Policeman Kelly's fellow officers picked up skinny, dark-brown Richard Hawkins on the southwestern edge of town. Yes, said Negro Hawkins, he was one of those in George Demetree's but the other boy, Ernest Ponder, had done the stabbing...
Fighting in China began last fortnight in the southwestern suburbs of Peiping between Japanese troops engaged in war games and the Chinese forces of General Sung Cheh-yuan (TIME, July 19). In a series of pitched battles at historic Marco Polo Bridge and among the hamlets clustered about Peiping, Chinese gave a spirited account of themselves, and last week in picturesquely worded communiques they "repulsed the barbarians who tried to cut off our garrison and airport at Nan-Yuan, driving them off with our broad-swords." During this engagement two small Japanese shells burst just inside Peiping's Yungting...