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...London air officials tallied a two-year bag of 7,170 Axis aircraft, exclusive of victories by their allies, counteracted rumors that ack-ack has bark but no bite by claiming 1,350 of these as anti-aircraft victims in France, Britain, the Middle East...
...Treasury Building in Washington. Opium is perhaps the most important drug used by doctors. Formerly, the U.S. imported over 150,000 Ib. of opium a year from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Germany; opium poppies are not commercially grown at all in the U.S. Quinine, a specific for malaria, comes from the bark of cinchona trees in the Dutch East Indies; no substitute is quite so good. Other dwindling drugs: ^ Belladonna, made from the deadly nightshade, was formerly imported from Yugoslavia, Italy, Russia. A minuscule amount is grown in the U.S. During World War I about 300 tons a year were produced...
...sending not only marines but trees to Iceland. In the July Journal of Forestry, a young, husky, German-born Colorado forester, Jacob Jauch, tells how he has unofficially exported enough seed from Colorado's cork-bark firs and spruces to produce some 125,000 trees for Iceland's chief forester, Hakon Bjarnason...
Motto of the Bank of England has always been: "Never explain. Never apologize." To newspaper criticisms of the Bank Norman once said merely: "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on." But in wartime England such hauteur no longer suffices. After Picture Post featured an article last spring demanding that Norman retire, he appointed the Bank's first press-relations officer in history...
...British aviator was given the classic burn treatment: first a scrubbing under anesthesia, then applications of tannic acid (found in tea, bark, coffee, etc.). One day a noted surgeon visited him, ordered the tannic-acid treatment stopped at once. But it was too late. "This is what tannic acid does," said the lieutenant last week, holding up his glazed hands, permanently puckered into half-closed fists...