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...colorless, odorless, nontoxic, non-inflammable gas one and one-half times heavier than air, carbon dioxide (CO2) was first obtained in liquid form by Faraday in 1834, first sold commercially in 1888. In 1899 annual U. S. production was some 12,000,000 lb. Today more than 300,000,000 lb. are sold yearly and Liquid Carbonic Corp. handles most of it. Made in 36 plants in the U. S. and Canada, its gas is delivered to 10,000 U. S. beverage bottlers in 400,000 steel cylinders. There is a steadily widening use for liquid carbonic in asbestos composition...
Largely attended by oldsters, last week's Modern Woodmen convention at Chicago's Stevens Hotel was a colorless affair where little was done but review finances, re-elect the man who has headed the order since 1903-Adolphus Robert Talbot. Big-featured President Talbot is a 78-year-old lawyer who was once the partner of William Jennings Bryan. A strait-laced Methodist, he does not smoke, drink, chew or play cards. Having fathered two daughters and a son, he lives with his wife in Lincoln, Neb., likes to putter with flowers. His chief boast: neither the Modern...
...News. From there he went to the New York Evening Post, then joined the staff of McClure's (with Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell) at the height of its brilliance. After eight years of reformist muckraking. Hendrick's journalistic training was nicely balanced by 14 on the late, colorless World's Work. For the last ten years, bespectacled, stately-domed Author Hendrick has devoted himself to writing books. Others: Life of Andrew Carnegie, The Lees of Virginia...
...42nd annual running of the National Field Trials. But in a long fortnight of dog-running, it was the only reminder they had of heroic Brookfield Dumb-Bell. Thirty-nine of the nation's best bird dogs, one of the biggest entry lists in years, performed in colorless fashion. Experts blamed the poor showing partly on the weather-late winter snow and sleet alternating with blustery spring winds-but also on the seldom-mentioned fact that the Ames Plantation is no longer precisely overrun with quail...
...Gilda in Rigoletto 24 hours before the performance when Stella Andreva caught a cold. Critics had liked her better four days earlier when she made her Metropolitan debut singing Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. Even then they felt a little uneasy about her pitch. In Rigoletto her colorless, inexact rendition of the great Caro Nome and her literal, lifeless acting convinced few that she was the outraged, unhappy daughter of a court fool. Lawrence Tibbett was more imaginative as her hunchback father, used his strong baritone with an accuracy that seemed almost reproving...