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...last week, boll weevils began to stir for their attack upon the 1930 cotton crop. From ground cracks, from old cotton stalks, from patches of dead grass and weeds, the continental swarm of little quarter-inch beetles crawled out of hibernation to meet the warming sun, to twitch and test the long, sturdy snouts with which they will bore into billions of green cotton bolls this summer. Patient planters, breaking up their ground for the new crop, plowed legions of the pest back into the ground to destruction. But legions more crawled out prepared to multiply. Not plows nor prayers...
...gases become ionized, and, striking the paper tapes, in time destroy them, literally by bombardment. In addition the heat generated chars the insulation and disintegrates the oils so that the combined effects have made high voltage cables the most unreliable link in the present electric power system No adequate test has yet been developed which will predict whether a cable will operate for any reasonable time...
...Wilmington, Del., last week from the test field for Bellanca planes, George Haldeman lifted his stock Bellanca Pacemaker, powered with a Wright Whirlwind 300 h. p. motor. He was in the air for 1 hr. 16 min. During that time he had hoisted his ship to a new commercial plane altitude record of 33,500 feet. The previous record was 25,700 feet...
...must struggle to throw off heat. The harder it struggles, the harder the heart must work. The pulse rate indicates the heart efforts, and thus the body efforts. High pulse rate is an index of unwise, inefficient overexertion. Dr. McConnell found that when his subjects in the cork-lined test room developed a pulse of 135 a minute, they complained of discomfort. Their heads ached, their hearts palpitated. A metallic taste came into their mouths. They could speak only with effort. At 160 pulses a minute they felt as though they were "floating on air" and were at the verge...
...University Seconds at 2.15 o'clock at the Garden. Captain Saltonstall, who returned to the ice yesterday after spraining his ankle in the St. Paul's School game, will probably be saved for the game at New Haven Saturday. Without his services the team will meet a real test in their undefeated opponents...