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Last month a little tin box, no more than five inches around, arrived in the U.S. In it were 100 feet of microfilm-the photographed score of the Seventh Symphony. It had been carried by plane from Kuibyshev to Teheran, by auto from Teheran to Cairo, by plane from Cairo to New York. Photographers went to work printing from the film. In ten days they reproduced four fat volumes, 252 pages in all, of orchestral score...
...reasons: dehydrating cuts shipping space and weight an average of 90% (12½ gallons of vegetable soup, enough for 200 soldiers, can come out of a 2-½ gallon container of dry soup mix); treated paper and cardboard containers suitable for dehydrated goods save tin, can be easily destroyed in emergency so as not to fall into enemy hands; comparatively few workers are needed in dehydration plants; if dried foods had been used in the first year of Lend-Lease shipments, the equivalent of eighty 10,000-ton ships would have been spared for other duties...
Radio can send children searching for box tops to trade for tin whistles, or it can send them to the library to hunt good books; it can train them to expect a world in which a masked man on horseback holds off evil singlehanded, or it can train them to find and play their own role in society. Which type of program do American parents want? A woman who took part in the first children's program ever given in the U.S. has put out a slender book (All Children Listen; George W. Stewart; $1.50) calling on parents...
...with deadly organisms: these died or remained dormant. The meat lost some protein value in the drying. In the dehydration, the meat is exposed to great heat, practically precooked, then put into dry air to drive off at least 90% of the moisture. It must be vacuum-packed in tin cans until other packaging can be found. To reconvert the dry, powdery meat, it is soaked in water for an hour, boiled ten minutes, simmered for 10-20 minutes...
Trouble at Home. Besides, President Rios had more exclusively Chilean problems to think about. Victim of an acute war-born economic crisis, Chile suffers severe shortages in gasoline, tin plate, rubber, steel. Since 1941 the cost of living has gone up 39%. With no palliating wage increases, labor grows daily surlier...