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...scarfaced Dr. Karl Clodius has long been Adolf Hitler's successful advance man in the Balkans. His luscious blonde "assistant," Edith von Koehler, has long impressed Balkan social circles, which never tire of blondes. But last week Edith von Koehler was not in Ankara and Turkish Government circles were not impressed by Dr. Clodius...
...lunch hour speakers from the intellectuals explained, but did not end, these waits. "One must remember," they said with their statistics, "that we lost 60% of our iron production when the Fascists took Krivoi Rog. We lost 45% of our manganese at Nikopol. At Leningrad 49% of our tire industry...
...Barring sabotage, Hitler would get most of Russia's electric, hydroelectric and manufacturing plants - 70% of pig iron, steel and rolled steel capacity; 90% of oil refineries; 63% of tractor factories; 85% of machine and machine-tool factories; 90% of chemical, synthetic rubber and tire plants. But Russia's manufacturing plant, like its agricultural resources, is usually hard-pressed to sustain even the longtime poor living standards of Russia...
...listed stocks in U.S. corporations, plus stock in 41 British-owned U.S. insurance companies (including Globe Indemnity and Royal Indemnity) estimated to be worth $180,000,000, plus an estimated $115,000,000 of unlisted securities in 46 privately owned U.S. corporations-including Delta & Pine Land Co., Dunlop Tire & Rubber, Clark Thread, Josiah Wedgewood & Sons (china), Yardley of London (cosmetics) Also assigned to RFC were the earnings of 41 U.S. branches of British insurance companies. Since total earnings of these investments have averaged about $36,000,000 a year-enough to amortize the loan at 3% interest in 15 years...
...solar-energy heater patented last week by Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a tire less inventor of solar-energy machines. His newest eliminates many of the circulation pipes which made older models clumsy, costly, tricky. A concave cylindrical mirror, clockworked to follow the sun, focuses the solar rays on a vacuum-insulated tube filled with a heat-absorbing liquid such as black petroleum. As the petroleum heats, it rises to a reservoir, from which cool petroleum then descends into the heating element by gravity. As the reservoir gets hotter, it can be used for cooking...