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...unpronounceable profusion in the vast wastes of the Western Pacific. It had been told often enough that a Japanese grab of The Netherlands East Indies would leave the Japanese dominating U. S. trade routes to the Philippines and the Malay Peninsula, thereby threatening its sources of rubber and tin...
...Swagman: hobo; billabong: waterhole; jumbuck: sheep; tuckerbag: food bag; squatter: sheep rancher; waltzing Matilda: hobos' affectionate name for their bag (bundle with blanket, tin cup, etc.) as it dangles from their shoulders and jounces with their pace...
...Tin Pan Alley wiseacres figured that on the pay-as-you-play basis-which the networks wanted instead of the 7½ percentage of network gross which ASCAP had asked under its proposed new contract-ASCAP-ers would receive about half of the $4,500,000 they got from radio in 1939. Stephen Foster's Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair has been a stand-by of the networks in fighting ASCAP with songs in the public domain. Lovers of American music recalled that this number had been written 87 years ago by a composer who was not only...
Called geobotany by Engineer Lundberg, this method of prospecting was developed in Sweden. Tin, nickel, silver copper, many other metals can also be located by plant absorption...
...farmer-artists, Earl Sugden, 56, of Yuba in Richland County, does his landscapes with barn paint, makes his own brushes out of hair from his horses' tails clamped into holders fashioned from old tin cans. Painting is only one of Farmer Sugden's many hobbies.' Self-taught in everything, he makes arrowheads by pressure-chipping, has made tin models of more than 135 different kinds of Wisconsin birds, likes to make jackknives, translates poetry from French, German, Norwegian and Hebrew, writes poetry himself. Besides a workmanlike landscape and a portrait of a worried raccoon, Farmer Sugden sent...