Gold Fort Knox Threat Discussed as U S Holds Vast World Reserves
A historical article notes the United States stores a massive total of monetary gold, surpassing world holdings. It discusses Morgenthau's efforts to curb flows, the fortress like Fort Knox, strict security, and the secrecy surrounding construction as guards protect the bullion vaults.
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Pe Teetara
Uncle Sam
Grand Canyon
United States
Treasury
Morgenthau
The World s Gold Supply and Fort Knox Defenses
A detailed account describes Fort Knox defenses for the U S gold reserve including subterranean vaults many sentries and an electric eye system. Three-person combinations guard the vault door with entry limited to a few officials. The article recounts a 200 million dollar gold train from Philadelphia and a second shipment of about 120 million dollars and notes the impracticality of thieves looting the vault.
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Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Philadelphia
Fort Knox
Fort
Invention of Cellophane by J Brandenberger
Accounts credit Swiss chemist Dr J Brandenberger with discovering cellophane around 1900. Born 1872, he trained at Bern, working in the Vosges region of France where viscose sheets were tested with cotton to resist dirt. An accident reportedly led to the breakthrough.
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J. Brandenberger
Dr. Brandenberger
Reity
Bern
Rend
Vosges
France
Beaver colonies and lodges defy simple classification
A Detroit Free Press note explains beaver behavior with beavers living in caves along streams and constructing lodges, suggesting some colonies use both lodges and bank burrows rather than a single pattern.
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Detroit Free Press
Structure of the Pituitary Gland Inside the Skull
The text explains the pituitary gland protected by two bony vaults within the skull. It describes the gland as having two parts like the brain’s hemispheres, located in front and back, with the pituitary nestled inside the inner vault.
Fat girl carried by van in Yugoslavia claims world’s heaviest
Saveta Andelic, twenty six, from a peasant family in Jago dina, Yugoslavia, weighed about 504 grams and is carried in a specially built van. She is described as possibly the heaviest girl in the world.
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Saveta Andelic
Jagodina
Yugoslavia
Ducks Migrate Following Ancient Fly Ways Across North America
A government naturalist notes wild ducks traverse four main flyways the Atlantic Mississippi Central and Pacific as they migrate between the United States and Canada. Pathfinders Magazine explains families move along routes rather than species so exterminating birds on one path would delay repopulation.
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United States
Canada
Atlantic
Mississippi
Central
Pacific
Pathfinder Magazine
Early Chinese Capital and Emperor Shih Hwang Ti
In 250 B C the Chinese capital Lian in Shensi province served the Emperor Shih Hwang Ti known for burning books to claim the beginning of all things and unify thought across the country.
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Lian
Shensi Province
China
Shih- Hwang-Ti
Polariscope Instruments and Crossed Polarizers Explain Light
A polariscope uses two Nicol prisms the polarizer and the analyzer to study substances in polarized light. When their vibration planes are at right angles the light is extinguished unless an optically active substance intervenes.
Brief note on presidents Buchanan and Cleveland
The text references James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland as presidents. Cleveland is noted as married to Frances Folsom, daughter of his former Buffalo law partner.
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