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...glibly of delivering frozen delicacies from New Orleans' famed Antoine's, is "sure the day will come when housewives can carry on for weeks without really cooking anything." Concludes FORTUNE calmly "Eight hundred million beefsteaks a year might be broiled in or near Chicago, quick frozen, and eaten any time from a day to six months later, anywhere from Maine to Mexico...
...mile and a half. Motors of the automatic net lifters began to cough. With thousands of lake herring trapped by their gills in the 2½-in. meshes, the nets poured into the boats for two hours a glistening stream of thousands of pounds of fish. Nets cleared, lunch eaten and new nets set, the fishing fleet turned homeward, from Duluth to Munising, Mich...
...sort of farewell luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton for friends she feared might be too busy for such things for the rest of 1943. She explained: "They're all war workers." Among them: diamond-studded Mrs. Byron Foy, Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church Phelps, Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith Davis Warburton. Eaten: supreme of melon in port wine, boned squab with white grapes new peas in butter, hearts of endive and beet roots and fine herbs, floating heart ice cream with figs, petit fours, demitasse. It was meatless Tuesday...
Tests proved Durham right. He further found that the rotation of a ship's engines sets up a weak electric current, which charges a ship's metal. In salt sea water, which is an excellent electrolytic bath, the metal is swiftly eaten away. Durham had no idea where the metal went, but he hit on a simple way to stop it: suspending in the water another metal higher in the electrolytic scale. Thus, when he installed a piece of zinc, electrically wired to the ship, near a bronze propeller, the propeller picked up zinc deposits instead of losing...
...British officers, unarmed, went aboard the cruiser Eugenio de Savoia. They were courteously received by Admiral Bagliria's successor in command, Admiral Romulo Olivia, and fed the best dinner they had eaten in months. Accustomed to the sparse quarters on British ships, they admired the Admiral's sumptuous mess and the tiled bathrooms of the Italian officers' quarters. The British officers heard an Italian officer say: "The Germans make big mistakes. The Italians make little ones, but lots of them. We are not very good at anything...