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Pitt, pointing for the Rose Bowl, was upset 7-to-0 when little Duquesne's substitute halfback, George Matsik, got loose around right end, ran 72 yd. for a touchdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Some of the most spectacular uses of Fairchild cameras are by Fairchild itself. Fairchild Aerial Surveys will take on any job from photographing an industrial plant or large estate to mapping 68,000 sq. mi. of the Southwest's "dust bowl" as it is now doing for the Government. Power companies use the service in planning transmission lines, oil companies in surveying pipe-line right-of-way. Connecticut's highway department Fairchild mapped the whole State for some $20,000. The Connecticut survey still provides Fairchild with revenues through sale of enlargements to towns and individuals. For less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fairchild Fission | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...siphon of a fresh water mussel, among whose gills they ripen and hatch. Drs. Aaron Elias Kanter, Carl Philip Bauer & Arthur Herman Klawans of the University of Chicago discovered that a bitterling will stretch her ovipositor, whether or not she needs to lay eggs, if her bowl of water receives as little as one teaspoonful of urine from a pregnant woman. Female sex hormones apparently stimulate this indicator of pregnancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Deceptive Bitterling | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...arrival of Mal McTernan at wing-back, displacing George Roberts. The permanancy of this shift is uncertain, as both boys played good ball on Saturday. At the present standing, it looks like a neck and neck race between McTernen and Roberts all the way to the Yale Bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thirty-Seven Players Survive Varsity Football Squad Cut | 9/29/1936 | See Source »

...long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined from 25 million bushels in 1901 to 16 million in 1926. Beavers "were butchered to make ugly hats," thereby removing a genial animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cost Accountant | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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