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Last year, long before the recent war scare, Dr. Dunn received from England a consignment of mice with a hereditary defect. Their teeth grew backward into their jaws, causing early death from malnutrition. Reason for this shipment was the same: fear of destruction by bombs...
...York's Chase National Bank. The Japanese claimed that the silver rightfully belonged to the Japanese-controlled new Chinese Government at Shanghai. Dollar Line officials, unwilling to anchor the ship indefinitely off the China coast, grudgingly unloaded the silver and clearance papers were reissued. The shipment was stored in the Chase offices at Shanghai while U. S. diplomatic officials pondered what to do next...
...last week trains were still running, albeit irregularly. Most remarkable testimony to Chinese ingenuity was that the 680-mile run from Canton to Hankow has been shortened to 36 hours instead of the old 45-hour schedule. Moreover, in spite of war, and because of heavy war supply shipment, the line made money; net profit last fiscal year...
After spending $250,000 drilling for oil in England, Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd. recently opened a promising field at Dalkeith, ten miles from Edinburgh. Last week Anglo-American made its first shipment (2,000 gal.) from Dalkeith to its refinery at Purfleet on the Thames. It took the biggest "shot" ever exploded in the British Isles, over 500 lb. of gelatinous nitroglycerin, to bring in the new Scottish field. Result was the biggest yield of oil thus far struck in the British Isles; at 750 feet the yield of one well is a modest 10 bbl. a day. Usable...
...Germany has practically all the dirigibles. The National Munitions Control Board approved the export last November, but since helium is a natural resource, the Interior Department has final say. Secretary Ickes, not convinced that Germany would use the non-inflammable gas for commercial purposes only, has held up the shipment...