Customs Officers Use Mirrors for Smuggler Search
New York port officers patrol ships entering the harbor with mirrors and flashlights to detect hidden narcotics. The surge in drug smuggling has yielded multi million dollar seizures, including a Le Havre ship haul and a waterfront tenement raid yielding cash and drugs.
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New York
New York Harbor
United States Customs Enforcement Division
Milady
Harry M. Durning
United States Customs
Durning
Mediterranean
Britain
Ireland
Herman Lipski
Naples
Genoa
Marseille
le Havre
Antwerp
Lipski
Stitch in Time Skirts Stretch Hems With Tape
A suggestion for expanding skirt hems notes that longer hems reduce fabric width. Two or three rows of seam tape can be sewn together to widen the hem for a better fit. The piece uses playful guidance to adapt clothing alterations.
Wise Mallards Solve Brighton Migration in Minutes
In Brighton Michigan Livingston county, about 50 ducks perform a playful migration near a mill pond. They waddle from the pond edge across Main Street to the pond’s other half, completing their journey in roughly 30 minutes. The urban ducks dine on crumbs along the bank as they migrate.
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Brighton
Mich
Livingston County
GE recovers valuable diamond dust from shop
In Schenectady New York General Electric reports recovering diamond dust weighing more than two dozen gems the size of the Hope diamond. The dust worth 3 to 5 dollars per carat can be reused to polish tungsten carbide dies and was produced by a WWII era simplified process.
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Schenectady
N. Y
General Electric Company
General Electric
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Tobacco By-Products & Chemical Corporation
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Kentucky
California
Sunkist
Thornton & Minor
Doan
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