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...boat shaped like an Eskimo kayak. Two more sticks merged into a double-ended paddle. The hiker stripped to a bathing suit, stowed his clothes forward in his little craft, stepped agilely aboard and shot away into the rapids. Instant later he vanished in a spate of spray round a bend, leaving fishermen and trout with mouths agape...
...Kissner's Folbots cost from $40 to $70, come in five models and two typesצrdinary and heavy duty. The complete craft weighs about 50 lb. A canvas deck keeps out spray, and two rubber notation tanks prevent sinking in case of capsizing. Low-slung, they are hard to tip over. Experts have made the 1,400 miles around the coast of England, the 17,000 miles from England to New Guinea, the 1,500 miles from Manhattan to Chicago. German, British and U. S. submarines are sometimes outfitted with them. As in skiing, German is the language...
...Vernon Raymond Haber of Pennsylvania State College seems to have first made the discovery that Epsom salt is poisonous to insects and has been spreading the news to other entomologists by word of mouth. Dr. Haber recommends that a spray of Epsom salt in water be used against Mexican bean beetles. J. H. Hawkins of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station advocates this Epsom salt spray against wheat wireworms. The Frings believe the spray "could be used safely on many vegetables and fruits...
...blockade unprotected, to find himself hailed as a hero by British sentimentalists (TIME, April 26). Changing his course at sea, Potato Jones last week was heading not for Bilbao but Alicante. Before he could reach it another British tramp, the Seven Seas Spray, had already run the gantlet and warped to a Bilbao pier, after having been halted, then wished unofficial Godspeed by a British destroyer. Reported her Captain, W. H. Roberts...
...didn't see a single damn Rebel warship or a single mine. I'll go anywhere merchant ships can go as long as I've got a sturdy British bottom like the Seven Seas Spray, a good crew and my daughter Fifi. . . . She has no intention of marrying, but prefers to remain with me. She doesn't know what fear is, and during our trip from Saint-Jean-de-Luz she was right there on the bridge, wearing trousers...