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...beneath the fuselage, caught in a tangle of stray wires, banging against one another. Instantly Pilot Breene zoomed his plane upward, looped, spun, dove, climbed again in an effort to shake free the bombs. They still swung, knocked, banged. Pilot Breene then sped the plane inland over a wooded swamp, signalled his companion to jump, followed him an instant later. As the two officers drifted safely, slowly earthward beneath their billowing 'chutes, there was a terrific blast overhead, then a rain of metal fragments, bits of what had been an airplane...
...create Everglades National Park at the southwest tip of Florida. Called as a witness was a man who has spent much time in the 2,000-sq.-mi. area, famed Gynecologist-Naturalist Howard Atwood Kelly of Baltimore. Dr. Kelly told the committee about the grandeur of the vast mangrove swamp with its rare white ibis and roseate spoonbills. He impressed upon his listeners that the district harbored the only tropical bird rookery in the U. S. Then, lest the committee grow bored, he released a slithering grey & yellow king snake five feet long...
Several months ago, Dr. John Kunkel Small of the New York Botanical Garden took a train ride through the Mississippi delta, looked out of the window with his knowing botanical eye at the lush growth of the southern swamps. Suddenly he saw something which made him want to stop the train-a swamp full of giant iris such as a Paul Bunyan might have planted. Soon as possible Dr. Small went back to the spot with two botanical friends. The iris grew seven feet tall, like young trees. They bore immense rainbow colored blossoms. The botanists floundered with difficulty about...
...Jersey). Two dozen of the nocturnal, Hooveresque rodents dammed one stream so successfully that it backed up and floodeda highway. Major W. A. Welch, the park manager and engineer, set traps, caught the entire offending colony, saved State money by transferring the animals last week to a swamp which he wanted transformed into a lake to improve the scenery...
...elongated and brilliantly colored. To see if they were still alive, Dr. Lipman put them in a proper breeding medium, found that in a few hours they had reproduced by the million. If additional research proves that the organisms were present when the coal was formed in a prehistoric swamp, they will be direct, minute evidences of the antiquity and nature of Life...