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Show A City of Zinc. Beira, on the coast of Portuguese East Africa, is a veritable city of zinc. Every utensil is made of it If you were to break your leg you would be taken to the hospital on a stretcher of zinc, and when you arrived at the zinc building you would be laid on bedding resting on a zinc framework. Zinc seems to be the only cheap material that will withstand for a reasonable length of time the effects of the humid hu-mid climate, and it is accordingly employed em-ployed in every possible way. |