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...Russians, he said, took 70% to 80% of Anshan's equipment, including foundry tools, machine shop, steel rolling and milling machines, chemical equipment, trucks, locomotives. The booty was sent by rail to Dairen and to Russian-occupied Korea, for shipment to Russia...
...half-dozen lower jaws, 100 teeth, a few odd fragments of arms & legs-were carefully packed in two unpainted wooden boxes. First the boxes were stored in a secret vault at Peking Union Medical College. Then they were spirited away and delivered to the U.S. Marine barracks for shipment to New York City. That was in the fall of 1941. It was the last seen of Peking Man and fragmentary friends...
...harried retailer summed up: "My clerks feel like keepers at the zoo with no food for the animals at feeding time." AH over the U.S., underwear, men's suits and shirts and women's stockings were scarcer than ever before. Stores brave enough to advertise a small shipment of any of the precious items warned customers that they shopped at their own risk (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), occasionally had to call police to quell riots...
First Rubber. The first shipment of crude rubber to the U.S. from the Far East since 1942 arrived in New York. The Canton Victory brought in 8,100 tons. Another 275,000 to 350,000 tons of natural rubber are expected to reach the U.S. this year...
Montezuma, Aztec Emperor of Mexico, is said to have sighed: "The Christians must have a strange disease which only gold can cure." Most jewelry from the era before Columbus went to cure that disease-nearly all of it melted down for shipment to Spain as bullion. The few surviving objects were mostly buried deep in ancient tombs. Last week Mexico's Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of 200 prehistoric gold ornaments in Oaxaca. In Brooklyn, the museum of art opened a small, comprehensive show of pre-Columbian gold, silver and jade from the Americas...