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Cotton Textiles. "We're gonna do this job in a goldfish bowl. We'll listen to everybody before we get through," promised General Johnson, referring to public hearings on all codes before their submission to the President for final approval. First "goldfish" to go on exhibit in the Washington bowl was the cotton textile industry. Week before a cotton textile code had been turned in to General Johnson. He thought the industry had done "a very beautiful job" even though its minimum wage fell $4.40 per week short of General Johnson's own standard and its maximum...
...week: "We know we've got something. It's up to the bacteriologists and dermatologists to carry on and find out what it is." Chief fear of Researcher Coates last week was that news of his work might set skin sufferers everywhere to dipping themselves in convenient goldfish or guppy bowls. Bacteriophage may or may not be present in the water of an aquarium. But even if present it is too weak to be of any therapeutic value...
...Samuel Jr. arrived in London on the crack Golden Arrow, disguised himself by taking off his spectacles, hurried to the Park Lane Hotel. "I feel like a carp taken from a muddy river and put in a goldfish bowl, under a spotlight," he told newshawks. "I have lost a fortune and now I have only a salary. I am on vacation and my boss, James Simpson, expects me back in November." In Chicago it was revealed that Samuel Jr.'s salary is $100,000 a year -$25,000 each from four Insull utilities...
...Goldfish spawning time begins in March, lasts three or four months. Females produce from 3.000 to 5,000 eggs a year, from which Roy Nakashima raises 500 to 1,000 fish. Eggs are spawned in moss & water. Ten days later the fish are put into separate pools, where they grow during the summer. Young goldfish are brown. In the autumn they are big & bright enough to be sold. They are bailed out of the ponds, sorted in troughs, placed in cans for shipment. During the trip the water in their cans is changed every eight hours. Ozark goldfish have stocked...
...Nakashima lives & talks goldfish 51 weeks a year. During the other week he watches the World Series baseball games, cheers diffidently for St. Louis when St. Louis is represented. He is in his late 30's. At work he wears rubber knee boots and a huge straw hat. He has found that the goldfish business booms with Depression because goldfish are a cheap form of amusement. He is now experimenting with diets to determine how much influence feeding has on the color and marking of the fish. Next winter he will go to Japan to seek new and strange varieties...