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This spring the Bureau of Entomology organized a Division of Foreign Parasite Introduction which will search Japan, France and Austria for parasitic enemies of insects that have invaded the U. S. from those countries. Of parasites which have already proved their worth hundreds of thousands were loosed from government insectaries. One star performer is Trichogramma minutum, a small species of wasp which lays its own eggs inside the eggs of the codling moth, oriental fruit moth, European corn borer, pecan nut case bearer, Angoumois grain moth, many another...
...booth at nearby Marche-les- Dames. Instead, with an impulse toward secrecy, he drove a long way to the chateau of Count Anton de Wiart, and from there telephoned the royal palace at Brussels. The two court officials who got the message drove out to Marche-les-Dames to search for the King. It was not until 2 a. m. that the searchers found him. Meanwhile three conflicting stories had been given to the Press: 1) an automobile accident had detained Albert; 2) an automobile accident had killed him; 3) his body had been found floating in the Meuse River...
...last truly international-minded Foreign Minister, Kijuro Shidehara, in 1931, the basis of Japan's foreign policy has not changed one inch. She is bound to make herself master of the Far East, peaceably if possible, by force if necessary. But the Japanese are a polite people who search constantly for a foreign minister who car hew to the line his country has chosen and at the same time avoid enraging foreign powers by imprudent statements. It is the despair of Japan's diplomats that there is no language that can explain what Japan is about...
...debate the Stock Exchange Control Bill one day last week were startled to read in Washington papers the Declaration of Independence as an advertisement. They were even more startled to read: "This advertisement is paid for by Frazier Jelke & Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange." But search as they might the Senators could find nowhere the customary tagline of all financial advertising: "The above information is derived from sources which we believe reliable but is not guaranteed." As all member firms must, Frazier Jelke had to submit Thomas Jefferson's text to the Stock Exchange...
...HISTORY OF EXPLORATION-Sir Percy Sykes-Macmillan ($7). Who first went exploring purely in search of knowledge is unknown. Merchant-explorers more than three millennia before Christ were the Sumerians, whose high civilization glimmered before history's dawn. Exploration was a by-product of trade and conquest for the Assyrians, the Minoans of Crete, the Phoenicians, the Greeks. Anaximander of Miletus (Sixth Century B. C.) drew up the earliest known map of the world, which he regarded as a cross-section of a great cylinder hanging from the heavens. A generation later Hecataeus wrote Periodos, the first known book...