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...marry his father. Could Bobbie Blaydes? Bobbie, Jefferson senior's old friend, is a social man, a person who plays around with many people for amusement; he knows nothing about steel, cares less. Could Jenny Carlton? Jenny, characterized as "a good egg," is Donald's cunning childhood chum, now his secretary. Could Arthur Willis? Willis, Jefferson senior's subordinate, got Miss Eames her job in the old man's office. Anyone of them could have stolen the formula. Author Blaker gives good account of himself in revealing his secret...
...sharply. Important are these members of the salmon family: King, or Chinook (Pacific coast, bright, arterial red flesh, averages 22 Ibs.); Red or Sockeye (Alaskan, dark red flesh, 6 Ibs.) ; Coho or Silver (Pacific and Alaskan, light red flesh, 7 Ibs.); Pink or Humpback (Alaskan, pinkish flesh, 4 Ibs.); Chum or Keta (Alaskan, colorless flesh, 8 pounds). For every King, silver or Chum salmon that leaps into a can this spring there will leap (approximately) three Red and four Pink salmon...
...Food" to "King Salmon." Say packers: "Today ... it is once more respectable to be in the packing business." Say advertising men: "Advertising has undoubtedly contributed in a significant way to setting the industry on its feet." Packers of Pink and Chum salmon (about 60% of the total pack) were worried in the spring of 1926. A large run was expected, and they already had 1.500,000 cases left over from the previous year. Moreover, an ignorant tradition led salmon-eaters to prefer Red to Pink. Investigators for the Associated Salmon Packers glumly heard many a housewife declare...
...sapsuckers chum with the hens...
...dresses modestly for her work (an "alas, very cheap" fur coat). She discourages the advances of young men on the tops of busses, carries her notes in a neat handbag and would sooner sit home and read in the evenings than gad about at dance places?unless her girl chum is in town. To thousands and thousands of such young women any generous author of light fiction should feel a lasting debt of gratitude. Very well, then, such shall be Mr. Oppenheim's heroine; her name, just plain Edith Brown...