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...tree snail is peculiar to southern Florida, Cuba, and Haiti Dwelling upon smooth-barked trees, where he can easily move about, he feeds on the algae and lichens growing there. In Florida, where the best specimens may be found, they are most numerous on the hummocks of the Everglades, and it was here that we chiefly directed our efforts...
...dark without stirring some people's suspicions. To dissipate suspicion, President Hoover, by executive order, last week, lifted the curtain of secrecy from the Treasury's income tax operations, sufficiently to reveal the important details of all tax refunds above $20,000. It was a move long demanded by progressives and Democrats in Congress and as long opposed by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. The White House ordered the new policy; the Treasury obediently executed...
...industry out of the depression it has sunk into through overproducing. Only one-tenth of U. S. oil production comes from government land. The Hoover order will cut this production in half, thus reducing the whole industry's supply by only 5%. But the moral effect of the move may be great...
Perfectly alert and mobile, the brain followed each move of the Mexican revolution (see MEXICO), as Mme. Foch read rapidly from latest editions of Le Temps. Ever and always the Generalissimo, her husband, who had long since lost all appetite, ordered his jaws to chew, his gullet to swallow, and so far as in him lay, his stomach to digest...
Came a sudden cloudburst. Roads were washed out. Impossible to move. Black night descended. Fitfully in their busses the travelers dozed. Came, out of South Africa, a noise like distant thunder, then the full-chested, long-drawn reverberant roar of lions in the bush, a sound no lion makes in captivity...