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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amiably following the established for mula for stories about crazy families, Danger - Love at Work is unpretentious, well-paced and often very funny. Typical scene: Papa Pemberton trying to pick out the proper type of shotgun for use at a fashionable wedding...
...from the city's Whosoever Mission. The chief justice (Judge Welsh) read them a charge which urged them to consider whether Alcohol is guilty of various capital crimes committed by people under its influence, of causing poverty, insanity and bodily disability. The juries could, if they wished, make use of "canned" verdicts written by Dr. Russell and condemning alcohol to death in rather elaborate language. The 20 Philadelphia juries, however, simply judged Alcohol guilty in their own brief words. Somewhat to Dr. Russell's surprise-it had never happened before on the trial's tour-a jury...
...almost to the point of diplomatic severance. He accuses his critics of not appreciating the importance of his labors. They reply that he is. on the one hand, too secretive about his technical developments and, on the other, too attentive to publicity and commercialization. They say that the scientific use of hydroponics should be to learn more about the physiology of plants, that its commercial possibilities are not proved, that it is unsound to compare water-grown with soil-grown crops on the basis of acre for acre yield...
...Africa and the East Indies. The world annually consumes some 21,000,000 132.2-Ib. bags. For the past six years Brazil alone has grown an average of 20,000,000. This overproduction was a Brazilian headache as long ago as 1870. That year the Government bought coffee to use in paying foreign balances, lost heavily. In 1906 the Government began a valorization, scheme (buying coffee at artificial prices, during fat years, storing it for resale during lean) which lasted until the War. It was semi-successful. A second valorization program, started in 1924, proved a vast failure when there...
...Wright brothers were getting their airplane off the ground for the first time, Willis Carrier put the first airconditioning system in the plant of a Manhattan lithographer who found that on hot days the humidity wrinkled his paper. By 1906 Willis Carrier had devised an air conditioning system for use in cotton mills, which up to then had such a problem keeping humidity in their spinning rooms that they operated with windows open in the dead of winter. Five years later he worked out an engineering formula for atmosphere-moisture which made people begin calling him "the father...