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Outside the crimson-hung windows streamed the traditional Inauguration Day rain. Inside the crystal-and-gilt East Room streamed 200 friends, relatives and distinguished guests. Franklin Roosevelt's twelfth year as President had begun...
Brazil's strategic raw materials (mica, quartz crystal, industrial diamonds, manganese, chrome, tantalum) still have an insatiable market at excellent prices. Since foreign manufactures are hard to get, Brazilian factories have most of the domestic market to themselves. New industries have sprung up, old industries have expanded. A big gainer: the textile industry...
About 8:30 the Molotovs began to receive in one of the large palace rooms under a glittering crystal chandelier. It looked like the last act of Ziegfeld's Rosalie-wave after wave of bedecked diplomats, armchair generals, bathtub admirals from every civilized country and Japan. The Japs arrived in a protective wedge, their runt-sized correspondents flanked by a beefy general, their dapper ambassador overshadowed by a flashy admiral. They all smiled and you kept thinking of Mr. Moto...
Originally from Maine fresh-water lakes, the smelts were transplanted to Michigan's Crystal Lake in 1912 as food for salmon. The salmon unaccountably disappeared, but the smelts thrived, soon spread through the Great Lakes. In Huron and Michigan fishermen dipping for bigger fish found them a nuisance. Developed into a popular table delicacy, the silver smelts became a big industry in the past decade; prices jumped from ½ to 4? a Ib. This year OPA had counted on smelts for 10,000,000 Ib. of food...
...disease; there seemed to be nothing wrong with the fish anatomically (a diseased fish usually shows ruptures or lesions). Said Dr. Van Oosten: "I am completely at a loss. The fish died regardless of sex, age, size, spawning condition or anything else." Last week Dr. Van Oosten hastened to Crystal Lake, where the smelts still seemed healthy, to fish and analyze further...