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...first descent is planned for next February in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa. The submarine will stay down for twelve hours, but will carry enough oxygen for 24. A mother ship will watch it worriedly with submarine-detecting devices...
...Manhattan, W.N.U. executives said that the Florida weeklies would be guinea pigs in an experiment designed 1) to test reader reaction to W.N.U.'s 100-odd canned features (comics, news pictures, fiction, Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell, patterns, editorials, etc.); 2) to show U.S. country editors how to put out better, more profitable papers. But expansive John H. Perry said he had even bigger plans: a nationwide system of state newspaper chains...
Twice since 1900 the Hawaiian sugar industry has been seriously threatened by bugs: 1) the sugar-cane leaf hopper was brought under control by parasites imported from New Guinea, Australia and China; 2) the anomola beetle was eventually laid low by a bug from Manila. A dramatic victory was won over the voracious avocado mealy bug, a native of Mexico. One of his old enemies was brought over from Mexico, and now both bug and parasite have disappeared...
...victims were male guinea pigs. Thirteen were penned in small cages 18 inches from the antenna of a radar transmitter. Nine were exposed to the waves direct. Others were shielded by sheet copper, which would not stop any X rays the apparatus might be emitting...
Then came the crucial test. Solemnly the medical officers introduced the male guinea pigs to females of the species. Promptly the males proved that they were not impotent. Soon thereafter all but one of the females proved that their mates had not been sterilized. One male remained on the doubtful list. Medical officers dissected him, found that he too could have become a father...