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...naval stores industry was still worried last week. On its chief market (Savannah, Ga.) turpentine was selling for 29? a gallon, rosin from $4-$6.10 a barrel. World War II had crimped exports to a point where factors figured they would be lucky to ship 250,000 bbl. of rosin (50% of '39), 7.000,000 gallons of turpentine (75% of '39) abroad this year. Although surplus stocks of turpentine are down, warehouses groaned with a staggering 1,200,000 bbl. of rosin. Main hope is for a better market...
...nearly the same size in the sky, but the distance of both bodies from earth varies slightly, and the size of their apparent disks varies accordingly. April's annular eclipse begins in the Pacific, crosses the southern U.S. -darkening Austin, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Pensacola, Tallahassee, Savannah, Jacksonville-and ends in the Atlantic (see chart}. Texas' McDonald Observatory, which is 50 miles from the shadow path, will send a party into the path near the Mexican border to study infra-red radiation from the bright ring around the moon...
Naturally the President cannot declare a war zone in any part of the high seas where the Germans or the English choose to make a threat. If this policy were followed, soon we would hardly dare to run a boat from New York to Savannah. But the Mediterranean is a different matter. Flanked by suez and Gibraltar, it rests well under the British thumb, and so is a natural operating area for German U-boats. This stretch of water is bound to bring trouble to any neutral who dabbles in it, and none that gets out of it could...
...France last week. She was dined and bedded by Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the White House at Washington, D. C. Thence Eve Curie would start her two-month lecture tour of the U. S. - from Kalamazoo to Palo Alto, from Denver to Savannah - on French Women...
...Savannah's late, great Chemist Charles Holmes Herty spent the last eight years of his life trying to make commercial newsprint out of Southern pines. In his laboratory he found a process that worked, but he died in 1938, before the South's lumbermen could build him a mill. What kept Dr. Herty at his labors (and excited many a Southern businessman) was the prospect of another rich, new industry to help along the South's industrial revival...