NEWS IN BRIEF.
Il is authoritatively stated that the United States intends to retain the 300,000 tons of German shipping which was seized in American ports when the United States entered the war. An average spntee tree when converted into paper yields about 500 pounds of that product. If a novel runs to 300,000 copies the destruction of trees would be 600. French surgeons have discovered means to remedy the amputation of the thumb, one of the commonest of factory accidents. The big toe is grafted from the patient’s foot on to bis band. The average deposit of soot over London for the year ending March 21st, 1920, was 40,000 tons. In 1916 it was 55,000 tons, and since then it has steadily diminished. The material damage done by smoke to property in Manchester and Salford is estimated at £1,000,000 a year, or about £1 per head of the population. In Pittsburg the damage is £4 per head.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2315, 13 August 1921, Page 4
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158NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2315, 13 August 1921, Page 4
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