Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been his had he broken the coast-to-coast record, Manufacturer Vincent Bendix dangled before Col. Turner a $3,500 "consolation prize" if he beat his own record. Last year Col. Turner crossed the U. S. in 10 hr. 4 min. 55 sec. behind a 600-h. p. Wasp Sr. This year in his dull-gold Wedell-Williams racer he had a 1,000-h. p. supercharged Hornet which he hoped would carry him from coast to coast in 9 hours or less...
China's is the only Government which cheerfully and publicly buys off its political foes, generally with much heroic haggling. Last week a glorious bargain was finally struck by agents of the shrill little Chinese Generalissimo, wasp-waisted Chiang Kaishek. To get this most vital haggle started the agents had to go to British Hongkong and blandish their way into a strongly built house protected by elaborate iron gratings and guarded day and night by heavily armed Sikh police from India...
...Parasite Introduction which will search Japan, France and Austria for parasitic enemies of insects that have invaded the U. S. from those countries. Of parasites which have already proved their worth hundreds of thousands were loosed from government insectaries. One star performer is Trichogramma minutum, a small species of wasp which lays its own eggs inside the eggs of the codling moth, oriental fruit moth, European corn borer, pecan nut case bearer, Angoumois grain moth, many another...
Promisingly vulnerable to parasites is the Japanese beetle, a handsome bronze and bottle-green creature smaller than a June bug. Experimenters have found that maggots of the Prosena fly and Tiphia wasp will destroy the Japanese beetle grub if they have access...
...ambition when she reads that Ellen Terry never reached her zenith until she had a baby. Delivered of a baby, Linda gives up singing for dancing, shoots overnight to stardom. A few good hits behind her, and she falls in love with her newest leading man, handsome wasp-waisted Lorenzo Valenti (Philip Reed). She divorces Victor, leaves her baby, runs off to London with Lorenzo. Her new husband's infidelity sends her back to the U. S. just in time to be shut out of a room in which her baby is dying. Older, and presumably wiser, she decides...