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...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...
...time, the first twelve experimental Wasp and Hornet engines were sputtering and coughing in the Pratt & Whitney shop, Shareholder Deeds had moved to Hartford to become assistant treasurer, later secretary & treasurer and still later vice president. The next two years were banner years for Pratt & Whiney and for Stockholder Deeds's $40 investment. Pratt & Whitney engineers developed the highest-powered air-cooled motor in existence, fitted with split crankshafts (for greater endurance), new type cylinder heads (for greater cooling). Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic fired a nation-wide interest in aviation-and aviation stocks. The public rushed...
...Wasp-waisted Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek agrees with President Roosevelt that the present is no time for old-fogyish, orthodox finance. Last week he accepted the resignation of orthodox. Harvard-graduated Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong, the only man who has ever balanced Republican China's budget...