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Last week Brother Kiyoshi chalked up another double: the 800-meter and 1,500-meter championships (all events have been changed to metric distances this year). But this year he had more than his kid brother to contend with. In the 400-meter free-style his title was copped by up-&-coming, 17-year-old Bill Smith Jr., a kinky-red-haired fellow Hawaiian (part English), who a few months ago broke the world's records for 200, 300 and 400 meters. Teammate Smith, nicknamed Malolo (flying fish) by his native playmates because he has no Hawaiian name, also...
...wheat by a shorter haul from Canada. Only a fraction of the 840,000 bales of wool which Britain arranged last October to send from Australia to the U.S. has arrived. Shipments of chilled and frozen Argentine beef to England (which needs it badly) dropped from 367,982 metric tons in 1939 to 280,242 last year, an estimated 131,000 tons at the outside this year. Unable to move 12,000,000 stems of Jamaican bananas bought at two shillings a bunch, Britain has presented them to the Jamaicans for disposal. Not even all the U.S. steel on which...
...tank cars in the possession of oil companies put at the disposal of the State railways. Allied-owned and chartered tankers on the Rumanian Danube were halted, a probable prelude to outright requisitioning. All this indicated that Germany would eventually receive practically all Rumanian oil exports (4,177,554 metric tons in 1939) except that from U. S.-owned wells...
...late Melvil Dewey was a daring man. He invented the library system of decimal classification, crusaded for the metric system of weights & measures, sponsored simplified spelling used on the menus (pe sup, hucklberi pi) of the fashionable Lake Placid Club, which he founded. If Melvil Dewey had been alive last week, he would have chuckled over his daring granddaughter Katharine...
Empire oil production 385 272,044 271,659 (in thousands of metric tons...