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...citizenry (178,000) is an anthropologist's dream. Below the 1,000 Dutch is a weird blend of Javanese, British Indian, Chinese, aboriginal Indian and Bush Negro. The Negroes are descendants of 17th-Century imported African slaves, who live and dress much like their savage forefathers, but still speak a kind of stubborn English.* Surinam produced 615,434 tons of bauxite in 1940, exported all of it to the U.S. The chief bauxite mine is at Moengo, up the narrow Cottica River close to the boundary of Dutch and French Guiana...
Professor Perry's latest book, "On All Fronts," is a composite of impassioned idealism and salty, New England good sense. More often than not the two blend well, and the reader drinks a warming potion of faith. Occasionally, however, the author is guilty is substituting idealism for an unpleasant application in practice, and his pleas for taking up arms on all fronts is weakened...
...Laughton) by the old walrus' son (Robert Cummings), who has mislaid his new fiancée. Of course the old man recovers, and the substitute fiancee has to continue her role until the young man falls in love with her and makes it permanent. The picture is a blend of amusing horseplay, bright dialogue and tears, with a noticeable...
...silver (besides the 46,800 tons monetized) which lie unused in vaults. Last week the National Academy of Sciences suggested that OPM put some of this expensive luxury to work for defense by substituting it for tin in solder. This would not affect the price of solder because a blend of 2½% silver and 97½% lead gives about the same results as the standard mixture of half tin and half lead. It would save around 18,000 tons of tin-almost 20% of U.S. 1940 consumption...
...King-size cigaret (85 mm. instead of 70) was nothing new. For over 60 years, "longs" of a wholly Turkish blend had been sold, but mostly to tired old women, Booth Tarkington and Erich von Stroheim. Frank Riggio figured that by putting an American blend in the 85 mm.s he could broaden their market. The 20% extra length would give a cooler, longer smoke; the 11% extra tobacco required would hike the manufacturing cost only 35? a thousand (from around $5)-not enough to throw them out of price competition* with the popular brands. Young Mr. Riggio figured right...