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...Cosmetic Act. Their brew was found watery. Said Assistant U.S. Attorney John C. Ray: "Chemical analysis shows that the dilution [of Glyoxylide] is so infinitesimal that it would be like dumping a cocktail in the Detroit River and expecting to get a kick out of the water going over Niagara Falls...
From the Canadian-Australasian liner Niagara, 438 ft. below New Zealand's coastal waters, an Australian salvage company hauled ?2,397,000 ($7,750,000) in gold ingots. The job had taken eleven months and three weeks, was the deepest salvage operation in marine history...
...Niagara was sunk by a German mine 28 miles off eastern New Zealand in June 1940. All hands were saved. An Australian salvager, Captain J. P. Williams, found the Niagara in February 1941. From a telephone-equipped diving bell divers directed the lowering of explosives to blast through to the small bullion room in the ship's center. Next they lowered a grab into the murky interior of the bullion room. Last Dec. 7 the job was done. Last week the news finally leaked out: more than eight tons of gold had been retrieved...
...Mild-mannered Presbyterian U.S.A. Chaplain Major John K. Borneman, who served in World War I as an ace flyer, chats about a chaplain's typical experiences. Borneman, from Niagara Falls, carries cigarets, Bibles, toothbrushes to the front and says the men ask for all sorts of things from him, including writing their letters home and confessing about the past. On Christmas Day, Borneman, as all other chaplains, carried as many as 1,200 greetings and cablegrams from the troops at the front to Manila, having to brave bombings and strafings en route...
...also point out, however, that the U.S. has a back door through the Canadian wilderness direct to the vital Minnesota iron mines which furnish the raw material for half the world's supply of steel, to the Sault Ste. Marie locks through which passes all the ore, to Niagara Falls which supplies 37% of New York's hydro electric power. Whether the U.S. can be repeatedly bombed via the back door depends on sea-lane control which alone can keep the enemy from establishing nearby provision bases...