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Bearing gifts of incense for the occult natives, pairs of newsmen headed for Haiti's voodoo country, forbidden Tibet, the Congo, and mystic Baffin Island to replace wizened H Flung Huey ocC, whose untimely resignation came Sunday night...
Ottinger, who is so full of nervous energy that he seldom sits still for five minutes, is not letting U.S. Plywood rest on its spectacular growth. This week he announced the completion of a new $600,000 hardwood-veneer mill in the Belgian Congo. Next month, at a new $2,000,000 plant in Anderson, Calif., he will start production of a new plywood, "Novoply," whose exclusive U.S. rights he bought from its Swiss inventor. It is, says Ottinger, the first successful use of waste wood chips as a satisfactory center for plywood panels, will cut production costs so tremendously...
When Spinster Ellen Burton reached the Congo, her equipment for work as a missionary consisted of a course at nursing school, a calm belief in God and a high quota of Indiana common sense. She needed all three. But she also developed a kind of talent that was not indicated by her attitude or training...
...prospect of a domestic supply of uranium, now mostly imported from Canada and the Belgian Congo, was looking up. This week Geologist Robert J. Wright of the Atomic Energy Commission told a Los Angeles meeting of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers that several kinds of uranium ore are being mined in the U.S. on a large scale. More important for the nation's future, said Dr. Wright, are the traces of pitchblende, the richest uranium ore, that have been found. There is an excellent chance, he believes, that deeper drilling will uncover more...
...transfer the throne temporarily to his son Prince Baudouin. This was acceptable to anti-Leopoldist Socialists and Liberals, if Leopold would guarantee not to interfere with Baudouin's regency. Some suggested that the monarch might stay in the Belgian countryside and devote himself to golf; others proposed the Congo. Then from Switzerland Leopold himself cut in huffily: "It is not necessary that I be asked for guarantees, which can add nothing to the value of my word...