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...nonwar businesses will be lucky in 1942: the movies (using few scarce materials, catering to re-employed millions); bicycles (see p. 66); distillers (who will have a seller's market for whatever they can produce over and above war alcohol production); porcelain enamelware (most likely substitute for many scarce metals in civilian hard goods...
Secret of the new intensity: the 182-ton steel tower of the transmitter rests on four porcelain insulators set on concrete pedestals on an island poured between a few rocks in Long Island Sound off New Rochelle, N.Y. (TIME, Sept. 2, 1940), and is completely surrounded by salt water, the ideal "surround" for radio projection...
Over the bright new stone and whitewash museum that stood at the other end of the dooryard they brooded like a couple of aging hens over a porcelain egg. Grumbled George: "Those buildings they're putting up aren't adequate. Candidly I never saw a carriage shed anywhere like those out there. That's just an architect's imagination, that is." Said Brother Henry philosophically: "Well, we want these things to be where people can see and study them." Descended from a long line of Pennsylvania Dutch, they were brought up in a well...
...trade with Japan of as high as 13-to-1. The new treaty seemed likely to increase Japan's annual imports from 26,000,000 yen (1939) to 70,000,000 yen (including coal, corn, iron ore, zinc, tin ore, in return for which Japan would sell textiles, porcelain, manufactured goods). In addition, Japan will be allowed to defer payments for one year on the large supplies of rice she expects to buy. Rubber, which Japan sorely needs, was not specifically mentioned-neither was it specifically excluded...
With an ideal production, the play might be a sort of animated Chinese screen portraying a charming, ancient tale of love triumphant over legal corruption. The Studio Theatre's revival has something of this quality, especially in the porcelain grace of the heroine, acted by little Dolly Haas, a German actress. But some of the actors lack her flair, with the result that the play provides mostly a rather precious kind of tedium...