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Captain Round's process provides for reading at normal speed. The Round records have three or four times the usual number of grooves of a twelve-inch record and rotate a third as fast...
Crops. Cotton and corn are the principal crops in the flood district. In normal times the cotton would now be waist-high?this year, even in regions where planting has been possible, it is only a few inches out of the ground. Corn should be from five to six feet high?even where it has been planted it is only a foot or less out of the ground. Only an abnormally long summer can save even a fraction of these two main crops. Farmers have been experimenting with soy beans, sweet potatoes, cabbages, crops as strange to them "as Broadway...
...Cornelius, N. C., Mrs. G. M. Burton, Negress, does not sing "Ten baby fingers and ten baby toes" to Bettie, a daughter she bore three years ago. Bettie, taken last week to a Charlotte, N. C., clinic for examination, has 18 fingers, 25 toes, on the normal number of hands & feet...
...changing the political and social characteristics of the people; 2) There will probably be several governments in China for a long time, as size and complexities impede rapid unification; 3) It is of no advantage for foreigners to attempt to impede the revolution or to interfere with the normal development of any one of the various governments by not recognizing it or recognizing only its opponents; 4) Nanking, possessing the wealthy background of Shanghai, seems momentarily the most stable of the independent governments. It actually controls more territory and engenders greater confidence among the substantial elements of the Chinese people...
...German Government will take the normal precautions that are necessary in its own interest to safeguard the budget, there is no reason to believe from developments thus far that it will find real difficulty in maintaining the necessary balance between its revenues and expenditures, including, of course payments under the Dawes plan...