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Faith, Hope and Charity. For the British, Malta was a naval base, a handy coaling station and therefore a bright military jewel which, with Gibraltar and Suez, gave the empire control of the Mediterranean. This was not to say that the Maltese themselves remained altogether satisfied with the latest rulers. The Maltese farmers, descendants of the Phoenicians, illiterate, pious, aloof, tilling the thin crust of soil which lies on the island's rock, did not much care. But the city Maltese, largely descendants of the retinues of the Knights, fervent Roman Catholics, clever and temperamental, felt uneasy under this...
Five years ago a Massachusetts jewel cutter asked Army Ordnance officers if they were preparing a sure source of synthetic jewels for military instruments. He was told that the matter was too small to bother about...
Apprentices Wanted. The uncut boules are shipped to U.S. jewelers to be split, sawed, cut, drilled, polished for use as bearings. This stage remains a serious bottleneck. Reason: jewel cutting in the U.S. involves more handwork than in Europe, where it is a highly mechanized art. So far the best apprentice jewel cutters have been nimble-fingered seamstresses. Grumbled a master jewel cutter last week: "We have been called upon to do a staggering job without having time to develop the machine methods it took the Swiss 100 years to develop...
Redmon, James Jewel '42, Manager
Redmon, James Jewel '42, Manage