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...first seeds reached Boston on January 5, 1948 by air mail; some were planted at the Arboretum and others distributed elsewhere. Several weeks later, the bulk shipment containing hundreds of thousands of seeds arrived. The Arboretum distributed some 600 seed packets to botanists all over the globe and sent large bulk parcels to American and foreign institutions--including Chaney at the University of California--for redistribution...
...chance came last year with the expropriation of British oil properties in Iran. Sadika helped set up the National Iranian Development Corp., which was to sell Iran's nationalized oil abroad, and became its vice president. Late this spring an Italian operator took a shipment of Iranian oil (TIME, June 30). Sadika held her breath while the Italian tanker tried to get through to Naples, practically wept when the ship's owner capitulated to the British (who treat Iranian oil as contraband) and put in at Aden. Swallowing her tears, Sadika Garagozlou then & there decided to buck...
Change of Prices. There is a big loophole in the new law: mail-order houses do not have to observe minimum prices in interstate shipment. So Fair Traders started a new drive to amend the law to bring them into line. Prices on many items sold by other retailers would undoubtedly go up as Fair Traders cracked down on stores which had been selling at cut rates (TIME, June 4, 1951 et seq.). However, many a manufacturer with overloaded inventories has found that the only way to lure customers in was to let retailers cut prices. While consumer items remain...
...shipment of Pogo buttons, just in, will be distributed to all marchers in the Square, and also at Bermorr's during...
...squeezed out of the burlap market, Pakistan raised $20 million for two jute mills and began to make its own burlap. Last week 297 bales, the first shipment of Pakistani burlap to the U.S., were unloaded in Brooklyn. Pakistan now plans to build four more jute mills, expects to be the world's second biggest producer of burlap by 1960. The U.S. Government was so impressed by Pakistan's determination to get ahead industrially that it is granting Pakistan $10 million for industrial expansion under the Point Four program...