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...male moth can find a female-even at night, through fog, and as far as seven miles away-is a favorite puzzle of entomologists. The male moth flies unerringly downwind, which rules out the possibility that the female sends out odorous particles. In the latest Interchemical Review (research house organ of Interchemical Corp.), John P. Duane and John E. Tyler, both of Interchemical, suggest a solution of the puzzle...
...Moth Balls. Luckily the U.S. was not as badly off as it seemed. To date, the planes most needed in Korea are not the fastest, latest jets on which the aircraft industry's skeleton production is concentrating, but World War II types like the Mustang F-51. These are slower but have the longer cruising radius needed to fly from distant bases and provide tactical support for ground troops (see WAR IN ASIA). The U.S. had 4,600 such World War II planes in "moth balls" when the Korean war began and was rushing them into action. But Secretary...
This book, a companion to Virginia Woolf's "The Death of the Moth" and "The Moment," and to her earlier "Common Readers," is probably the last volume of her essays which will be published. Many of the essays in the book have appeared separately before. Written at various times in the last 20 years of her life, they represent a wide variety of subjects, from a dissertation on the novels of Turgenev to a plea for the abolition of book reviewers...
...very good business), Bangkok's colony of Westerners has doubled since prewar days, new numbers 1,200, including 400 Americans. Foreigners love Siam. Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld was entranced until he met with a painful accident. A doctor explained that his swollen cheek was caused by a poisonous moth. "How," cried Hirschfeld, "can I tell people at home I was bitten by a moth...
...when President Harry S. Truman rose to launch Democratic campaigning for 1950, there was a stirring salvo of applause and whistles from the multitude. The gist of his speech: that the Republican party had "insulted the intelligence of the American people" when they "dragged out the same old moth-eaten scarecrow of socialism" as an issue in the 1950 elections...