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...Eyes on Russia, 32 selected pictures are accompanied by running comments from under the black cloth. Sprightly travelog, philosophy, technique, anecdotes focus the view through the ground glass. In front of Bourke-White's sympathetic but anastigmatic eye files the Five-Year cake-walk-agricultural, industrial, probably unworkable. The spirit of the proletariat was irresistible; but industrial idealism, sauced with scarce goods and inefficient service, she found hard to swallow whole. Living on cold canned beans, on "hard" trains that gave her few transports, she loved the Great Experiment with a grain of salt...
...October running 69,383 bales higher than a year ago, it was natural that cotton should join the movement, that last week's price of $33.50 per bale should be 22% higher than the year's low. Although the crop is large, unfilled orders for cotton cloth jumped 51.7% during October...
...will wear my habitual dress of loin cloth, shawl and sandals. If the King prescribes European dress I will be obliged to decline the royal invitation. It must be remembered I am a humble servant of India's impoverished millions and must dress as they dress-nothing more and nothing less. As a matter of fact the King's invitation is unconditional...
Friend Cuthbert Wright in his letter of November 4 is indulging in a variant of the old and fascinating game of priest-baiting--fascinating because the gentlemen of the cloth invariably fume so furiously and at the same time so impotently. But this same estimable sir is unfortunate in that the felicity of his pen is unmatched by the maturity of his criticism. If there is anything more offensive than the merriment of parsons it is perhaps the juvenility of minds...
...nozzle at the rear. On contact with the atmosphere, the liquid is changed to a cloudlike vapor. Under "unusual" atmospheric conditions, it is said, the tetrachloride joins with moisture in the air to form hydroscopic smoke particles containing hydrochloric acid which may damage leather or rubber compositions, bright dyes, cloth fabric other than wool. Chemical warfare experts of the Army stated that soldiers habitually handle Ti CL 4 without injury to hands or uniforms...