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...Pennies, now 95% copper, 4% zinc, 1% tin, will contain no tin, use more zinc instead. Net saving: 45 tons of tin. (To change the penny's content, no legislation is required...
Chlorophyll would be a monopoly of the plant kingdom except for the muscling-in of a little-known group of microscopic water animals.* Unlike the 850,000 other species of animals, which live parasitically off the food-making ability of the plant world, these little creatures contain chlorophyll and hence can synthesize food out of water, carbon dioxide in the presence of light. And unlike any of the 250,000 species of plants, one of these animals-Euglena rubra by name-changes its color, now red, now green, to control the amount of light it uses. This phenomenon was explained...
...finest Rembrandt show the U.S. has seen in many a year was presented last week by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose ponderous galleries contain the Western Hemisphere's largest general collection of important masterpieces. Unlike many a museum, the Met did not have to borrow-every painting, etching and drawing...
...R.A.F. may soon be eating Arizona carrots in preference to all other carrots on earth. The British Ministry of Foods last week impatiently cabled to University of Arizona Nutrition Chemist Margaret Cammack Smith for more details on her discovery that "Arizona carrots contain three to ten times as much carotene as the average carrot*-a discovery, said the Ministry, "of extreme interest and value...
...food and candy from U.S. friends could not hope for much this year, either. According to British customs regulations, "unsolicited gifts, whether they include rationed foods or not, may be received from abroad by parcel post addressed to individuals: but no parcel may exceed five pounds gross weight or contain more than two pounds of any one foodstuff." Gift parcels must not be sent more often than is "reasonable" (interpreted generally as once a month). Parcels from the U.S. that don't conform to these regulations are confiscated and distributed to charity...