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Picture "John Bull." Now make him taller-6 ft. 6 in. tall. Swell his great girth, expand his barrel chest. Make him the biggest, handsomest, beefiest John Bull in England. Dress him in a well-cut morning coat, impeccable striped trousers and white spats. Give him a handsome cane. Crown him with a high silk hat. Make him a Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. Make him the colossal figure who merged under the British Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. the largest group of shipping companies ever created (TIME, Feb. 23). Do all this and you have Baron...
...aces; his cut strokes were forcing errors; he was coming up to the net and volleying whenever he felt like it. In her mezzanine box, Cinemactress Gloria Swanson grew tired of clapping, but Promoter Jack Curley was not tired. Round and round the arena he tramped, carrying a cane, wearing white pants, a blue coat and the only straw hat in the house, his round face beaming on all the fine people who had come to his tennis match. In the last part of the last set "Richards, outthought and outplayed, rallied a little, but not effectively. It was Tilden...
...Jackson named them, for other saccharifiers to recognize, d-fructose 1, 2, and 3. Although inulin-derived fruit sugar suitable for household and factory use will soon be sold as cheaply as grape (corn sugar is the same) or cane sugar (a more complex sugar), fruit sugar purified for laboratory research costs $27.22 a pound. Dr. Jackson's three new sugars are not for sale. To produce the small quantities he has, cost at the rate of $50,000 a pound. Laboratory inulin costs $90 a pound. Its natural sources are dandelions, dahlias, goldenrod and. above all, the Jerusalem...
...Nine holes," admitted King Prajadhipok who plays both golf and midget golf but prefers: as an exercise, rowing & punting; as a hobby, color photography* (still & cinema); and as a penchant, collecting canes (the unrivaled Royal Siamese Cane Collection is publicly exhibited once a year...
...District Court, New York City, to dissolve the Sugar Institute, whose 50 member-corporations refine more than 85% of the nation's granulated sugar. The petition charged that the Institute had induced beet sugar refiners to restrict competitive activities, had maintained the price of cane sugar 20? per hundredweight higher than refined beet sugar...