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BLACK RIVER-Carleton Beals-Lippin-cott ($2.50). Novel by a noted friend of Latin America and murderer of the King's English...
Keep on pointing out that value no longer arises, as in Marx's day, from labour but from the Cultural Heritage (ref P. de Kruif's writing on wheat, and Mark Carleton...
...Carleton Beals contributes a detailed criticism of the Montevideo conference, happily free of the old saws and penetrating on the real extent of the concept of good will. There is a salve, in story form, on the installment buying system by William Trufant Foster; and a very, very conventional restatement of the silver argument, this time called "Honest Inflation," by one Edward Tuck. The most valuable contribution to Scribners comes from V. F. Calverton. Mr. Calverton is concerned with a sane revaluation of Thomas Paine, and he shows that among the many ironies of Paine's life, the most bitter...
Plastics. Carleton Ellis, Montclair, N. J. research chemist, surveyed modern developments in synthetic resins. Best known ones are those made from phenol and formaldehyde (Bakelite, Durez), urea and formaldehyde (Unyte, Plaskon, Beetle), glycerol and phthalic anhydride (Glyptal, Rezyl), and vinyl compounds (Vinylite). Other trade names: Tornesite, Thiokol, Plioform, Victron. With Bakelite starting the grand march they have been widely used in small molded shapes. Late developments make it possible to mold large objects (chair backs and legs, table tops, radio cabinets) from plastics. Tanks nine feet in diameter have been molded from Haveg, a phenol-aldehyde. Textiles can be impregnated...
...check, stealing the engagement pin he has given his fiancée and running away in a stolen car. In a weak third act he returns to disprove all charges and the family revives its punch-drunk fortunes in the stockmarket. Characters: the raucous, cynical daughter (Claire Carleton), the daughter in love (Nancy Sheridan), the lazy, acquisitive son (David Morris), the shrewd, big-hearted mother incapable of discipline (Helen Lowell), the speculating uncle, the unsuccessful suitor who makes pig faces to register loutishness, the stereotyped count and the rich, disapproving aunt. Weighed down with stock characters, a stale plot...