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At Blackpool, England, mourners at the obsequies of Sir John Bickerstaffe noticed on his funeral wreath the following message, delivered to Sir John every night by his chauffeur: "The fire's dying out; the water is nice and hot; the windows and doors are bolted; the mouse traps are...
The national issue, everyone admitted, was Conservative "Exclusion Tariffs" v. Liberal "Countervailing Duties" (TIME, July 28), both these schemes being partially booby traps for Canadian patriotism, partially panaceas for Canadian unemployment.
Thus funded, Dr. Goddard will now set to building powerful rockets which will carry aloft barometers, thermometers, air sampling traps. When the rocket's fuel is exhausted a parachute will open, the rocket will fall gently to the earth without damaging the instruments.
Inventor of and apparently chief investor in this new industry is Garnet Carter, the mild, easygoing, drawling owner of Fairyland Inn on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. About a year ago Mr. Carter did what many a U. S. hosteler had done in the past-installed a miniature putting course on his...
* No Federal or state laws forbid the use of live pigeons at U. S. traps, but public opinion against the practice makes it rare.