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...zoological connection but their economic and social connection is close and traditional. The statistical position of butter has improved. There are only 800,000 tubs of butter in storage in leading markets as against 1,100,000 tubs year ago. At 27¼¢ per Ib. butter was up 1?? for two weeks?and famed Speculator Jesse Livermore was thought to be in the butter tubs...
...coffee, now selling at 9½¢ against a Depression low of 5¼¢. When rubber jumps from 10¢ per lb. to 17¢ as it has in the past six months, five times five million souls throughout British Malaya and Dutch East Indies are the gainers. When cocoa rises 1??¢ per lb. from its year's low of 4¼¢, as it did last week, native growers all along Africa's west coast rejoice. The fact that tin is being held tight by a tight-fisted cartel at 52¢ per lb. means steady employment in Bolivia, Siam, Nigeria, Dutch East...
...expected to fight it out with Miller for the Olympic championship. At 14:3, Nishida had tried three times and missed, then watched Miller shake the bar with his arm as he managed to clear it on his last try. The height of the bar at the middle?14:1???? was an Olympic record but 2½ in. shy of Bill Graber's historic vault in the trials...
...duck cannot find food in one place it will go somewhere else. To raise money for conservation the American Game Association introduced a bill in Congress providing for a $1 Federal hunting license, met a counter proposal from the More Game Birds in America Foundation for a 1?? shell tax (TIME, March 28). Before the groups could agree on any measure Congress had adjourned. Meanwhile the American Game Association had sent observers to the breeding grounds, had received reports that conditions were good for a large flight this year. The Migratory Bird Advisory Board (game commissioners, sportsmen, naturalists, conservationists...
...rays are in the long-wave end of the electromagnetic spectrum. They are really heat waves, capable of penetrating clouds. The Macneil Sextant has a curved reflector that collects and potently focuses infra-red rays on a thermocouple, two pieces of metal which when heated even one-millionth of 1?? give off a tiny flow of electricity. This flow is enormously amplified, measured by a galvanometer. When the curved reflector is pointed directly at the sun, the flow of electricity is greatest and the navigator can "shoot"' the invisible...