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...Mikimoto. B-29s leveled his big Tokyo retail store, strafed his Ago Bay factory. But he still had half a million oysters in the bay, a fortune in pearls in boot boxes around his home. He set up a pill factory next to his idle plant, began grinding low-grade pearls and oyster shells into powder for an elixir (Mikimoto Pearlcalc) to give energy and long life, sold it to the Japanese Navy...
When the school cars arrive, children come out of the bush afoot, by canoe and on rail handcars, study in classes from first grade to junior matriculation (twelfth grade). Books, pencils and paper are free...
...they mix with Homicide Squad Captain Broderick Crawford, Night club Owner Peter Lorre, and Bodyguard Freddie Steele. They also whisk through a lot of the nicely observed detail which more pretentious movies usually miss. Samples: Duryea 's mannerisms as a dipsomaniac jazz pianist; Michael Brandon showing how a grade-A Hollywood columnist acts, and is treated, on a visit to a grade-B hot spot...
Class Unity. In Marion County, Ore., at eighth-grade graduation Howard Wilson was valedictorian, salutatorian, class historian, had been the only member of his class nearly all his school career...
...tonnage, roughly a quarter of expected U.S. consumption for 1946, was a prize few other countries wanted. The ore is low grade, needs special smelting to produce pig tin. But the U.S. has just such a smelter at Texas City, Texas. The U.S. problem was not refining the ore, but getting more...