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Show The term "Swiss Navy" used to be a joke because Switzerland didn't have any warships or merchant mer-chant marine. However, it isn't a joke anymore because the moun-tanous moun-tanous little country has a merchant mer-chant fleet of 33 vessels, 22 of them ocean-going. The Swiss registered reg-istered their fleet during World War II so they wouldn't be dependent depen-dent on beligerent ships for supplies. sup-plies. Industrial chemists have found out how to extract a" new oil from rice bran, which usually is wasted in the milling of rice. The oil does not pick up the flavors of food fried in it. lit is also expected to be used by manufacturers of cosmetics, cos-metics, soaps, and anti-rust compounds, com-pounds, j |