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...tomato-okra, vegetable, vegetable-beef. Into the making of these mighty mixtures go okra and sweet pimentoes from the South; peas, corn, lima beans from New Jersey and Delaware; red-hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish thyme, sweet marjoram; seasonings from Amberna and the Isles of Spice; carloads of ox-tails from the stockyards of Chicago...
Rockwell Kent, famed black and white artist, boarded a 33-ft. sailing cutter at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, last week. He was Greenland-bound, accompanied by Lucian Gary Jr., the writer's son, and Arthur S. Allen Jr., son of the cutter's owner...
James F. Davidson, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, at present the Brandeis Research Fellow in the Harvard Law School, will next year hold a Research Fellowship in Administrative Law. Mr. Davidson received his degree of Master of Laws at Harvard in 1924. At the same time it was announced that Wilbur G. Katz, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, had been appointed to a Faculty Scholarship at the Harvard Law School...
...plan calls for a take-off from New York with a small load of gasoline, a first refueling over Boston, a capacity refueling (1,900-gallons) over Nova Scotia, the next near Glasgow, more in Germany, Poland, Russia, Siberia, Alaska, etc. etc. The route as planned is said to be only about 13,500 mi. (about 10,500 mi. shorter than the circumference of the earth at the equator). At an average speed of 120 m. p. h., 13,500 mi. would take about 112?...
...smell of fish, fowl, game, plants, men, sea water and crude oil steamed into Sydney, Nova Scotia, last week; took on a supply of fuel oil and at once left for Wiscasset, Me., its home port. It was the Bowdoin, Arctic exploration ship of Commander Donald B. MacMillan. His months of collecting showed that many specimens of plant and animal life existed farther north than scientists heretofore have realized. Commander MacMillan shut off from world news so long, was most eager to hear about trans-atlantic airplane flights...