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...rate posters sully the Lascoff windows-each has its traditional jewel-colored globe of tinted water, many of them museum pieces. The shop itself is museumlike. One wall is covered by part of Dr. Lascoff's collection of herbal prescription jars, bottles, mortars and pestles, some of which date back to alchemists of the Middle Ages. A tiny gallery is lined with cabinets of rare drugs, books and neatly arranged antique scales and measures. Behind two neat enamel benches there begins the largest drugstore library in the U.S. The 1,000-odd volumes are in many languages...
Germ of this solid idea was born a year ago when West Coast aircraft manufacturers, including Donald Douglas, Robert Gross of Lockheed and others, decided to pool the know-how of their companies for the duration, and to exchange scarce parts, scarcer raw materials, even jewel-precious engineering and manpower talents. So successful was their cooperation that East Coast producers soon followed their lead...
...Italian people Tripoli was a proud name, a "jewel city." They saw logic in Mussolini's empire-mongering when Tripolitania produced olives, grapes, barley, wheat, almonds and figs for the homeland. It cost millions of lire to get production started, but the returns were in food, not, as in other of Il Duce's ventures, in crippled and dead soldiers...
...been born a 7 lb. 12 oz. daughter, her third. Day after birth the baby was placed on a lace-covered cushion, ceremoniously presented by her father to the registrar, who presently set down her name: Margriet Francisco-Margriet for "daisy." On the cushion was affixed a daisy-shaped jewel sent from London by Grandmother Queen Wilhelmina. Doubtless fixed in the minds of secretly celebrating burghers in The Netherlands was the meaning of Francisca, which is "free...
...while the outrageous Englishmen bounded up & down the narrow, stepped streets of Valletta, sweated at rugger, cricket, swam in the surf. Though there was never any outburst (the warm, damp sirocco was too enervating and the Maltese were too polite), neither did there burn in Britain's amber jewel any flame of devotion to the King. Not even when, in 1921, his Majesty granted self rule (within limits). The Governors and the governed lived in separate worlds, while many a Maltese cast wistful, restless eyes at Rome...