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...shallow tanks of nutrient solution, Dr. Gericke has grown tomatoes, potatoes, corn, beans, gladioli, begonias, dozens of other plants and vegetables-free from drought, disease, insects, floods, erosion (TIME, March 1). In a tank of 1,100 of an acre area he grew 1,226 Ib. of lush red tomatoes. His giant tobacco plants are especially impressive (see cut). From 25 sq. ft. of water he got 100 cantaloupes, declared this to be 20 times the yield expected from soil. Pushing against the roof of his greenhouse, with its massive roots in water, is an 18-ft. banana plant...
...Victorian histories of art are as distorted as early maps which were drawn as if the earth were flat. A half century's discoveries in archeology, anthropology and the psychology of esthetics have demonstrated that the world of Art is round, big, and far more comprehensive than the area bounded by the Greeks at one end and grandfather's favorite engravings at the other. The remarkable History of Art of Elie Faure, who died fortnight ago, actually a long, interpretative essay, left still undone the work of writing a factual history of art from an enlightened, modern point...
...price cutting. Freight car loadings were off to 771,655 cars, 5% less than for the same week of 1936. In Lawrence, Mass., the world's largest factory of its kind, Pacific Print Works, shut down for ten days along with all other textile firms in the area, and out of work went some 30,000 people...
...representatives at the various levels of the new Constitution's hierarchy of Soviets. He will vote for his representative: 1) in the village, city or metropolitan borough Soviet; 2) in the Soviet of the region; 3) in the Soviet of the Province; 4) in the Soviet of the "area," such as Khakassk, or the "republic," such as Georgia, in which he lives; 5) in the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union...
...River cost just short of $50,000, took a six-man crew six months on a 22,000-mile tour of the Mississippi valley. Just when the camera work seemed finished, in January, came the disastrous flood of last winter. Lorentz and his crew stayed in the flood area until Feb. 24, shot 80,000 feet of film. Only a few hundred feet were used in the picture; the rest went to the Department of Agriculture archives...