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Sugar Uses. Financed by the Sugar Institute, Gerald Judy Cox and Maryl L. Dodds of the Mellon Institute found new uses for cane sugar. With sugar, hydrochloric acid and a variety of alcohols they have produced sweet-smelling liquids which might be used in perfumes and which can dissolve materials used in lacquers...
...rescue, an Italian steam locomotive tugged the MacDonald train to Genoa where Air Minister General Italo Balbo waited at the controls of a big trimotored Italian seaplane. Flanked by nine escort planes, they darted toward Ostia (the seaplane port of Rome). In top hat, morning coat and carrying a cane. Il Duce peered skyward as Scot MacDonald, hatless and tousle-haired, waved from the alighting seaplane...
...eastern provinces, but there seemed to be no coordinating leadership, no Revolution with a big R. Bands of guerrillas raided towns and military outposts, burned plantations, cut wires, dynamited railroad tracks. A bloody skirmish was fought in Camaguey province. In Oriente rebels burned 200,000,000 Ib. of sugar cane at the Manati sugar mill. At Manzanillo a mob stormed the office of Cuban Electric Co. (subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share). Four trains were derailed. Another reached Havana bullet-riddled...
...been moving about the Capitol for 24 years in studious preoccupation. Only his Congressional intimates know his unspectacular worth. He has never had any practical experience as a diplomat but he has read every decision handed down by the World Court. He refuses to wear spats and carry a cane, but can recite by heart every trade barrier the world over. Laconic, when asked the time he will silently exhibit his watch instead of reading it himself...
...through the provinces cane fields and sugar mills were reported ablaze...