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...oranges were choice Valencias, tree-ripened to ruddy perfection. Ordinarily they would have spoiled during water transit without refrigeration. But shippers were not deliberately throwing away 7,500 cases aboard the uniced Dorothy Luckenbach: their ripe oranges were completely protected and preserved by a thin film of paraffin...
President William S. Menden of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit...
Step I was taken in 1916, when the brothers-two farm boys who went to the city and spent their savings buying empty lots-were already successful real estate operators in Cleveland. They had a suburban development called Shaker Heights which needed a rapid transit line to the heart of the city. For a rapid transit line they needed a right of way. They thought of hiring one from the nearby Nickel Plate Road. They went to the New York Central (which owned more than 50% of the stock of the Nickel Plate) and came away not only with...
...Washington last week. (Malarial fever raises the syphilis victim's temperature and remits, sometimes cures, the paresis caused by advanced syphilis of the brain -TIME, Feb. 20.) Heretofore it has been necessary to induce malarial mosquitoes to bite paretics. Live mosquitoes are difficult to handle, often die in transit, sometimes escape with consequent danger to the community. Dr. Mayne. who learned all about mosquitoes in England. India. the Philippines and the U. S., found that by chloroforming them under a 20-power magnifying glass he could cut out their salivary glands in which lie the malarial organisms. Made into...
...Soviet Government must do is to shuttle millions of people on an inadequate railroad system. Furthermore, it must feed each Russian in transit. Each must know to what province and village be is to go. When he gets there he must find a locking and a way of making a living. Multiplied by millions, this is practically and theoretically impossible. Observers saw that, if attempted wholesale, it would leave a lot of Russians sitting around on curbs...