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...micrometers to 573-ton hydraulic presses. The U.S. Air Force had mothballed the tools five years ago, and has been slowly leasing them out. But last week the Air Force decided to rent everything in the place, at week's end had 2,425 major tools ready for shipment to defense plants...
Last week Japan put aside her longstanding rule, scheduled 178 of her rarest art treasures for shipment to the U.S. Next month, when diplomats meet in San Francisco to sign the Japanese Peace Treaty (see INTERNATIONAL), the works will be on display in San Francisco's De Young Museum. The man behind the idea: De Young Director Walter Heil. When he read that San Francisco would be the scene of the treaty conference, he cabled the Tokyo National Museum. The Tokyo museum cleared it with the Japanese government, after a cabinet go-ahead gathered the best of the nation...
...Celery Eaters. Among Foyle's customers are Queen Mary, who sends over for books on antiques and fine art; Winston Churchill, who gets a regular shipment of thrillers, and Labor Party Left-Winger Aneurin Bevan, who tries to read a U.S. western every night...
Into Baltimore harbor last week steamed the converted Liberty ship Simeon G. Reed with a 10,000-ton cargo of iron ore, the first shipment to the U.S. from mines in Liberia. To get out the ore, Republic Steel Corp., which bought an estimated 62% interest in Liberian Mining Ltd. two years ago (TIME, March 28, 1949), has had to build Liberia's first railroad, from the mines to the port of Monrovia 43 miles away. The high-grade Liberian ore (whose iron content is almost 70%, compared to 51% for Lake Superior ore) is rich enough...
Some freshwater snails that Old sent back are the first received by the Smithsonian since a shipment by a German collector in the 1890s. Some of the specimens arrived alive, making it possible to study their anatomy for the first time, and they have found Washington's alien climate so attractive that they have already begun to reproduce themselves. Old's prize find: a stream-bed that was paved with Semisulcospira amurensis, a carrier of the lung-fluke larva which causes a disease with symptoms often confused with those of tuberculosis...