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...Duchessa D'Aquilanera, a strange ugly vessel of the haughtiest blood in Latin Europe, with an aristocratic limp, a cane between her knees and a prodigious appetite for lawsuits, concerns the Cabala less than her stripling son, who has fallen, as young Romans are expected to fall in their mid-teens, among many women, beginning with some warm young Brazilians. The New Englander is told off to inculcate hygiene in this young Marcantonio, whose passions incline also to driving highpowered motor cars and training with spasmodic vehemence to become an Olympic foot-racer. The hygienic regimen is balked by Marcantonio...
...Foreign Commerce Department of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. last week presented an array of statistical comparisons. It showed that on the 1925 list of U. S. imports, crude rubber stood first. Raw silk, coffee, cane sugar were second, third, fourth. Rubber gained in bulk as well as in value. Its total value imported was $429,705,000, a gain over 1924 of 146.6%. Its tonnage increased only 20.9%. (1924's price averaged 24? a pound, 1925's nearly...
Judge Toereky prudently refrained from prying into the nature of these "motives." Instead he called another prisoner, a dapper little man with his hair cut in the German fashion, a nervous but determined young man, who clenched and brandished a cane in one hand while he gesticulated with the other. This was Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, a descendant of the "Holy Roman Emperors...
...Kings Bay they will erect for themselves temporary houses, the walls of which will be fortified with "Celotex." This Celotex is a synthetic wood made by the Celotex Co. of New Orleans by shredding sugar-cane residue remaining after the sugar has been abstracted. The shredded cane produces a fibre which is compressed into sheets of sythetic lumber, just as in the lumber regions sawmill wastes are machined and compressed to produce the well known wallboards and sheathings...
They appreciate also another quality found in "Celotex." the quality that induced the Polar pilgrims to take it along to build their temporary homes at Kings Bay and even to line their ship quarters with it-its high insulating index. That this boarding synthesized from sugar-cane waste also deadens sound was immaterial to them. What they valued most was that it would keep out cold-cold which they expected would reach 50° to 60° below zero during part of their journey towards the Pole, and that it would keep within doors heat adequate for comfort. They might...