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Never in his life had Alf Harrodon seen ambergris, which begins as a secretion in the bowels of a sick sperm whale, ends as a base for precious perfumes. But he had been raised on the coast of Norway and like coast children throughout the world had been taught to keep his eyes peeled for it. With shaking hands he scooped up the cheesy stuff, 60 lb. of it, and carried it home. Next day he got a schoolboy friend to take a sample to his chemistry laboratory. That night the boy came back to report that the sample...
...carrying on explorations in Panama for three years. The archeological finds were made in the burial grounds of an unknown Central American tribe and are largely in the form of personal ornaments. The chieftains of the tribe were buried in giant stone slabs, in which were piled gold trinkets, precious stone, and brilliantly painted pottery. Some of the gold ornaments were valued at 100 to 150 dollars apiece...
...coins, far from their U. S. Treasury home. Last year the directors had bought 20,000,000 francs worth. Briefly they considered luring gold-hungry Frenchmen by using them as chips, giving players the genuine feel of gold. But they were afraid that hoarders would buy the precious coins, walk out without playing. Last week Frenchmen were obliged to play before they could collect the coins, the only kind of minted gold many a Frenchman has ever seen. They paid practically the current gold rate, 260 francs for a $10 gold piece, whereas $10 in U. S. paper would have...
...factory was Delman, Inc. Herman Delman has for a decade made high-price shoes for such notables as Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, Mrs. Harrison Williams, many a Brokaw, Auchincloss and Gould. He produces 2,500 pairs a week, makes shoes studded with precious stones, piped with gold and silver, painted with aluminum to shine in the dark. His prices begin at $14.75, sometimes reach $500. Last year when he gave up his retail store on Madison Avenue and confined himself to manufacturing, Saks Fifth Avenue signed a contract for an exclusive agency in Manhattan. Outside Manhattan, Delman shoes are sold...
President Conant knows how to use money to please other scholars. For the scientist: special laboratory equipment. For the historian: books, manuscripts. For the economist: secretarial aid. And every scholar yearns to see his precious but non-commercial findings in print. With such satisfactions would President Conant lure the world's best scholars to his Cambridge fold...