Mars flippled on his communicator, tuned the orange screen into the info web, and began interrogating both star officers.

An aseptate mycelium developed very intensively on the root surface and in their close vicinity and penetrated through the root hair and directly through the epiblem cells into the roots of the host plant.

Merchants in small communities have been “Wal-Marted” by the general merchandise chain store in the nearby larger community.

In the 1920s, a geological survey team of Chinese and Swedes had first located iron at Baiyun Ebo, a little over 90 miles due north of Baotou. More iron was discovered there in the mid-1940s, but none was exploited at that time. Soon after 1949, a team of experts spent three years surveying the area and concluded that the iron reserves at Baiyun Ebo totaled about 1 billion tons (a figure that subsequently was raised to 1.2 billion), making it one of China’s richest iron deposits.