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Biggest bolt ever recorded: a flaring snapper which hit the 585-ft. smelter stack of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Butte, Mont., in the summer of 1941. Its current totaled more than 160,000 amperes; its estimated pressure exceeded 15,000,000 volts. (Ordinary home circuit: 110 volts...
...fleet of power-driven fishing boats, is only 60 miles' shipping distance from Palm Beach. General Foods will start operations with 300 native workers in the plant, 1,000 more as supply fishermen. Main catch will be rock lobster (crawfish); later the company will go after pompano, grouper, snapper, other tasty tropical fish. If all goes well, the plant may be expanded, more natives put to work...
...picture-snapper moved to get a different angle shot...
...greatest achievement in photography since George Eastman pioneered and introduced the first black and white roll film in 1889-" With this demure panchromatic blush Eastman Kodak Co. last week announced a new, simple film with which any dub shutter-snapper can obtain full color prints instead of black-&-whites from his negatives. The new film (called "Kodacolor") differs from former color films in that it makes a transparent negative from which prints can easily be made on paper.* As a negative, not only are its light-&-shade effects reversed but its colors appear complementary to those of nature...
...judge by "scores of middle-aged patients dying from all sorts of diseases," arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) is very rare. So is angina pectoris (heart attack) which is often caused by arteriosclerosis. The rarity of these diseases, said Dr. Snapper, "is the more striking because the increase of the frequency of this affection in America and Europe is appalling....It is difficult to give an explanation...one can fall back on the equanimity of the Chinese, but the differences in nutrition of Chinese and Westerners may give a better explanation." Arteriosclerosis begins by the seeping of fat into bloodvessel...