Word: furnishers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...change in solar radiation of only .8%, temperature was affected as much as 5° F. This effect must be indirect, must operate through some unknown atmospheric condition since at times a rise in radiation will lower temperature and at other times will raise it. More knowledge will furnish a means of forecasting weather months in advance...
...killed. Only one small herd of the red hartebeest exists today in Zululand. Another victim of native cattlemen is the rare white rhinoceros. Because there are only 47 of these animals left in British East Africa, the government has forbidden the killing of them there. A discovery which may furnish a better method of controlling the spread of sleeping sickness was announced recently by R. H. T. P. Harris, director of research in Zululand. He found the tsetse fly sensitive to pyrethrum (insect powder.) and veratrine (obtained from the root of the Indian poke). Especially effective was a .5% mixture...
...claimed that he was an undercover agent of the U. S. Prohibition Bureau working at the still to get evidence. The Department of Justice admitted he had sought such a job last month but denied that he had been hired. Jailed with a Negro because he could not furnish $1,500 bail, he mused...
When correctly fitted, contact glasses are almost invisible. Because they follow every movement of the eyeball, they furnish a wider field of vision and a clearer image than do ordinary eyeglasses...
...easy way. "I am ready," he said, "to do all possible, institute every economy, shoulder every responsibility and stand every criticism, to carry on." Treasurer Dumaine, onetime mill boy, has been called "a past master in New England economy." His economies at Amoskeag were heroic. Amoskeag messenger boys now furnish their own bicycles; Amoskeag trucks, all except three, stay inside the plant walls to avoid the necessity for license plates. With costs at the rockiest of rock bottoms, Treasurer Dumaine has also modernized production and selling. The new rayon mill turned out 800,000 Ib. of rayon last year...