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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paint One Blue. The next step is to estimate the distance by timing the round trip of an individual bee (a worker bee flies about 15 m.p.h,). To do this, one particular bee has to be marked. Hunter Edgell does it by selecting a bee which has worked its way into a cell of the comb and is relatively immune to outside distractions. Then he daubs its rear with blue paint (made from carpenter's chalk and water). On the next trip, the blue-bottomed bee stands out from its fellows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Like Honey? | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...season, the tree is cut down, or, as bee hunters say, "taken up." Bring a tub, advises Edgell. "The humiliation of returning [with the tub nearly empty] is as nothing compared to the exasperation of filling a couple of buckets and finding that you have no way of transporting the rest ..." His best haul: 97 Ibs. of honey from one tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Like Honey? | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Replied Homer: "Having nothing to the contrary, we could only assume that there was a good possibility of it going the same way." Rosenman snapped back: "Personally, I think that there ought to be an apology to this board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Last Licks | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...shrewd selling, McKesson has become the biggest U.S. wholesaler of drugs and liquors. It has come a long way since the dark days of 1938 when its president, F. Donald Coster, killed himself after stealing some $3,000,000 from the company, and forcing it into bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Road Back | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...skipper can usually count the house by counting the hoots. For eleven weeks, St. Louis playgoers had gone down to the Goldenrod's mooring by the cobblestoned levee and paid 75? a head to sass the actors in his hokum-logged version of Hamlet. Last week, on his way home from a lecture tour, Bryant tarried in St. Louis for five days to give the classic a fillip: his own appearance in the double role of Polonius and the First Gravedigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: There Goes the Showboat | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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