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Said he (to a Senate subcommittee): "It is a terrific task to guarantee that the Canal will remain open while we still permit commercial traffic through it: Yet it is unthinkable that we would suppress commercial traffic. So we always have a hazard there. . . ."What General Marshall had in mind...
New Mexico attracts many thousands of residents of Oklahoma but mostly they are people who come to the cool mountain regions to enjoy New Mexico's climate, hunting and fishing, and scenic areas. Many who first came as tourists have returned as permanent residents. ..."
With microscopes using visible or ultraviolet light, magnifications of a sort up to 5,000 diameters have been obtained, but the really useful upper limit has hovered around 2,000 diameters. With microscopes using electron beams, useful magnifications have jumped to 100,000 diameters and more. Light is a train...
The people had no money. All they owned was fishing equipment. All they ate was cod, bread, tea, wild berries. They were plagued with tuberculosis, scurvy, anemia, beriberi. They had never seen a doctor, and they treated their sick with charms: sugar blown into babies' eyes to cure them...
In the '30s Ernest Hemingway expounded the mystique of bullfighting in Death in the Afternoon. It was a best-seller too, but the Green Hills of Africa, in which Hemingway expounded the mystique of big-game hunting, showed a falling off. The depression was on; strident voices were asking...