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...essential war material which Dow Chemical Com pany has just begun extracting commercially from sea water...
...income groups. Hollywood, like Wall Street, "appears to be a veritable astrologer's paradise." Some 20 of the U. S.'s sizable newspapers, chiefly in larger cities, carry astrological columns. U. S. newsstands distribute over a half dozen astrology magazines. Astronomer Bok's com mittee plans a campaign to strengthen all State anti-astrology laws...
...trouble is that John Donne (com plete) is not printed in the U. S. at all, but in England. Impatiently, the Oxford Press awaited a Donne shipment, praying that, like every other Oxford Press shipment so far, this one might elude Nazi submarines and planes...
...Chinese Christians," thinks Mr. Barnett, "can teach Americans a lot." A symbol of their spirit is the paperweight on his Manhattan desk - a fragment of the bomb with which a Japanese plane com pletely destroyed the big Y auditorium at Chungking two days before he got there last June. Though Chungking's Y has now been bombed five times, the work goes on regardless. Says its dogged Chinese general secretary: "They may destroy all our buildings, but they can't destroy...
...nothing attitude, but the Defense Advisory Commission finally asked that copper and zinc exports (mean ing to Japan and Russia) be made subject to licensing. The zinc request was prompted, among other things, by a blast earlier this month from C. Donald Dallas of Revere Copper & Brass. Dallas' com plaint: in October, Japan got 3,775 tons of zinc, in 1940's first ten months, 12,042 tons. Meanwhile, Brass mills working on cartridges, shell cases, detonator caps, rotating bands, fuse caps, other munitions for British and U. S. use, have had to curtail production and delay deliveries...