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Most important guano bird is the guanay (a kind of cormorant), a highly efficient mechanism for catching the fish that swarm in Peruvian waters and turning them into fertilizer. Each guanay eats about 60 small fish a day and deposits annually some five kilos (11 Ibs.) of guano. Steamers passing the Chincha Islands are forbidden to blow their whistles lest the birds take off, fertilizing the sea. The guanayes have a bad habit of flying low after their takeoff, and their tailfeathers brush guano off the cliffs. Señor Llosa is ringing the steep-sided islands with walls...
...Bird's-Eye View. Allowing for this rise in costs, and even with all the postponements, the rate at which new capital investments are being made is still at an alltime high. The utility and oil industries account for much of it. Electric light and power companies are in the early stages of a five-year expansion program that will cost $5 billion before it is finished. By the end of next year, oil companies will make additions and improvements worth some $4 billion, a boost of more than 22% in their total investments...
...Bird. But a thrush knew. "No sooner was the coffin grounded, than he was up on the brim of Edna's hat, his beak an inch from a purple cherry. . . ." For if Edna was odd, her hat was odder: the "goodness going up through her hair" had turned the trimmings to real flowers and fruit. The rest of the story reports how Edna earned her ?5 a week by exhibiting her unusual headgear in a publicity splurge that would have made Mother turn over in her grave. By the time she had been eclipsed by a woman...
Standard Classic Count Maurice (The Blue Bird) Maeterlinck, still a Belgian, sailed back to Europe after seven years in the U.S. (mostly Manhattan and Palm Beach), left behind him a damage suit against Dodd, Mead & Co., publishers. He complained that they had fallen down on the job of publishing his works and protecting his interests. He wanted...
...Through Pampanga Province in the Philippines last week ran another tonsorial tale: to see who was king of the newly born babies, a bird and a snake had fought. The bird won, but the snake threatened to kill all babies with hair on their heads. The story traveled fast. In five towns Filipino mothers had their children's heads shaved. The barbers had never done such business...