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...Bramson (May Whitty), a querulous, malingering old lady who keeps in genteel British bondage her penniless and emotionally suffocated niece Olivia (Angela Baddeley). When the maid complains of pregnancy and her seducer is called on the carpet, he turns out to be Dan (Author Williams), cocky, ingratiating, cigaret-mouthing bellboy from a nearby hotel in which a woman has been sensationally done to death. Dan cajoles old Mrs. Bramson so skilfully that he be comes her constant attendant. Olivia be comes progressively aware that Dan is the hotel murderer, that the slain woman's head is in his battered...
Factory. Each ton of soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...
...Harold Jeffreys suggested that if the star actually sideswiped the sun, the pulled-out gas masses would be twirled between the two like a cigaret rolled between two human palms. Professor Edward Arthur Milne, famed relativist, suggested that there may be several different kinds of time, which would eliminate the paradox of the fast rotation speeds. Professor R. A. Lyttleton brushed off and brought out a theory originated by Henry Norris Russell of Princeton, which contemplated the sun as originally a double star, one of which was pulled away by a third star. Sir James Jeans seemed pleased...
Because the anti-trust laws prevent manufacturers from fixing the retail price of their product, competition has forced the retail margin of profit down to a hairline on the popular brands of cigarets. At two-for-a-quarter the Big Three retail for $6.25 a 1,000. Retailer's profit, allowing discount, is less than i^ per package. Philip Morris, which sold 3,800 million cigarets last year, has generally been able to maintain a retail price of 15? straight, or $7.50 per 1,000. Wholesaling at $6.85 per 1,000, Philip Morrises make the retailer well over...
...restore retailers' lost profit margin Philip Morris last year tried an experiment in four States-Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia-each of which has its own cigaret tax. With every carton of 200 Philip Morrises the retailer was given an extra package of 20 free. The same result might have been accomplished by reducing the wholesale price from $6.85 to $6.23 a 1,000. but the psychological effect was different. Retailers loved the free package -15^ clear profit when sold-and they pushed Philip Morris sales...