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...Reader Capper and Goldfishman Noda consult the New York Aquarium, only institution in the U. S. which regularly procures fish for medical purposes. The Aquarium would be obliged to import bitterlings from Europe or Asia, storing them free of charge until the purchaser was ready to accept delivery. New York's Saw Mill River was stocked with bitterlings ten years ago, but two years later they had disappeared...
...Some 3,000 shares in the strategic 486-mile railway connecting the capital of land-locked Abyssinia with the sea in French Somaliland. Only over this railway is it practicable for Haile Selassie (which means Power of Trinity) to import, from the outside world, munitions with which to defend his empire...
...centre of authority in the U. S. will shift far from the point where it has reposed for a century and a half. In the long range picture no other part of the budget message had a tithe of the significance of that one sentence. Yet, in immediate import, other budget points cut a far wider swath in the news...
...Treasury the question of whether or not its public showing in the U. S. would damage the morals of the nation. Last November a print of Extase had been seized by customs inspectors under the indecency provisions of the Tariff Act when an attempt was made to import it in Manhattan. But when the time came last week to preview the picture in Washington, Secretary Morgenthau found himself so busy that he sent his wife to help render a decision...
...Food & Drug Administration busily sampled whiskeys, found many an instance of short measure, many more instances of faked whiskeys (caramel and alcohol, pomace and raisin brandy, etc.). Grumbled Mr. Campbell last week: "It is self-evident that our present resources are wholly insufficient to patrol the entire interstate and import liquor traffic...