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Coffee Hijack. A truck carrying 24,056 Ib. of A. & P. coffee from a New York warehouse to Philadelphia stores was hijacked and its contents stolen when its driver stopped at a Jersey City bean wagon for a cup of coffee...
Workers in heavy war industries receive ration cards for 1 Ib. 9 oz. of bread daily; monthly allotments of if 1¾b. of butter; 4 Ib. 7 oz. of meal; 1 Ib. 2 oz. of sugar; 4 Ib. 14 oz. of meat; 2 Ib. 3 oz. of fish; 14 oz. of salt; 1 oz. of tea. Those doing less heavy work, children and dependents get roughly two-thirds as much. But ration cards cannot provide food when there is none. Doctors estimate that Russians have lost an average of 15 pounds each during the past year. Although bread lines...
Born. To Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan, 31, mate of Tarzan on the screen, wife of Lieut. Commander John Farrow of the Royal Canadian Navy off it: a son, 9 Ib. 8 oz.; in Hollywood...
...that time only one gram was available and it was worth considerably more than platinum. Dr. Murray found that indium could be extracted commercially from a zinc ore mined near Kingman, Ariz. Last year the potential supply was figured at more than two million grams (4,400 Ib.) annually, at a cost of about 40? an ounce. At the rate that it is being put to work, much of that will be needed soon...
...months ago he formed a $500,000 subsidiary, one-third owned by Brazil's famed Taves family). In addition his year-old British West Indian Airways has relieved the hard-pressed West Indies by carrying an average load of 1,700 passengers, 15,000 Ib. of express, 2,300 Ib. of mail a month out of Port of Spain, Barbados, Tobago...