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...safety lamps. "How Many Closets for An Air-Raid Shelter?" asks a maker of chemical toilets who advises everyone to write for his free booklet, Sanitation in Air-Raid Shelters. For protection against fiery thermite bombs home-owners are urged to use Kimoloboard. Other appliances recommended to the reader are Blackout Fabric and steel shutters for windows, first-aid kits, fire pumps...
...Sorry, but another TIME reader beat Mr. Steiner to the draw. At Mr. Edward G. MacGlashan's (Hartford, Conn.) suggestion, Former Subscriber Harper's TIME will go to Rev. Theodoric Kernel, O.F.M. (TIME, June 5, ). 8) and the 18 other missionaries in the Vicariate of the Catholic Mission at Chowtsun, Shantung, China...
...Another reader works out the total tonnage at 26,750,000,000,000. TIME still thinks "incalculable" the right word...
...superlatives used by Reader Lawrence Griswold [TIME, June 26] in describing a bonefish (i.e., "world's greatest gamefish," "most elusive speedster") called to mind a tropical piscatory phenomenon known as the ''banana fish...
...prices until huge new audiences are found, publishers point to Modern Age Books, which two years ago set out to publish paperbound original editions at 35? to 50?. Backed by the Richard Storrs Childs fortune, Modern Age advertised heavily, cut costs by using the Rumford Press between printings of Reader's Digest, set up elaborate distribution machinery. Its losses the first year (attributed in part to inexperience) were reported at around $500,000. Since then Modern Age prices have risen nearer the $1 level...