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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burpee at once launched a feverish program of hybridization. Forty thousand cross-breedings were made in eleven months. To keep the new generations growing continuously under the best possible conditions, seeds were shipped by airplane to Miami, California, Puerto Rico, Argentina, by fast steamer to Australia. In California alone, 100 Japanese girls were hired to do nothing but pollinate the blossoms. To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals. In January 1934 Mr. Burpee announced May delivery of seeds for the varicolored, ten-petaled hybrids, a whole growing season...
While Americans may sit at ease and bless the fact that are separated from the theatre of European conflicts by three thousand miles of clear, blue sea, the fact remains that this country will soon embark on a program of re-arming that would surprise the most ardent militarist in the War College. The clouds across the Pacific loom too large to be ignored any longer. Investigations by the War Department have revealed only too starkly our utter unpreparedness and the inefficiency of much of our material. Both our war lords and the yellow press have hammered away...
Gifts constitute an increasingly important form of revenue. In the early nineteenth century they did not amount to more than several thousand dollars a year and often in the form of real estate. Records of last year, however, show gifts amounting to $1,400,000. Most gifts are given for a certain field, such as a museum or a type of research. Some are even more specific, such as the recent gift of Mr. Littauer for a School of Public Administration. The remainder are unrestricted, and are spent at the discretion of the University...
...high-banked seats of a lecture amphitheatre at Washington University were jammed with a capacity crowd of 300-mostly scholars, a few newshawks, a handful of laymen. In the doorways and the hall outside a hundred more strained their ears. This was but one of a thousand discourses made last week at the midwinter talk carnival of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis. But for most of the audience it marked the end of the "mystery" of cosmic rays, wrote finis to one of the most reverberating scientific controversies of the century. The tall, rugged...
...resemble a jail. They looked at 6,000 lines of merchandise, from collar buttons to calculating machines. Special attraction was the Hall of Science, devoted to house-furnishings, electrical and otherwise. In a pre-show message sent to 5,000 house-furnishing buyers, the Hall was described as FORTY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OF IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR GETTING MORE HOUSEWARES VOLUME STOP YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS THIS RARE FEATURE. Before leaving Chicago, buyers would order merchandise to the amount of $10,000,000. The Merchandise Mart can best be described as a store for storekeepers. Eighteen...