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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Busily tugging the teats of some of her husband's cows last week was Mrs. Carla de Vries, the woman who kissed Adolf Hitler at the Olympic Games last year (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936, et seq.). George de Vries' 1,000-cow Vitamin D Dairy in Norwalk near Los Angeles was strike-bound by C. I. O.'s Dairy Workers' Union. Plodding up & down the picket line led by a striking herdsman was a placid Jersey cow bearing the placard: I WON'T BE MILKED BY A SCAB...
...General Martinez Anido as Minister of Interior, in charge of police, meant that any last vestige of possible compromise with Spain's Communists, Anarchists and Socialists had been deliberately wiped out by the Rightists. Martinez Anido was Vice-Premier under the late Spanish Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, suppressed with hundreds of executions the proletarian uprising in Barcelona when he was Captain-General of Catalonia...
...Miles & $50,000,000. Entirely unmentioned in Cairo dispatches last week was the de facto ruler of Egypt, moose-tall and tolerant Sir Miles Lampson. He used to be the British High Commissioner in Cairo, became the British Ambassador as soon as Egypt and England set up their recent "alliance." Sir Miles is a grand surviving figure in the Victorian tradition of Bearing the White Man's Burden, spreading the Pax Britannica and generally wiping the noses of people like the Egyptians. Almost nobody disputes that half a century of British dominance in Egypt, more or less disguised...
...tons of mined ore. A San Diego mining engineer and chemist named F. S. Kearney, now working in Mexico, assayed Mrs. Bishop's ore at 130 milligrams of radium per ton. This high figure, Mrs. Bishop said, was confirmed when she sent a sample to the Institut de Radium in Paris (once presided over by the late Marie Curie). Present price of radium is $25 per milligram, $25,000 per gram, $700,000 per ounce. Mrs. Bishop suspected for years that she had radium ore on her property, kept it quiet until her claim was cleared in the courts...
...Beech-Nut Packing ("Everything Beech-Nut but the Eggs") showed $1,44°r ooo for the first half compared to $1,203,-ooo in the same six months of 1936 (both figures before Federal taxes). C, "Sales have continuously risen ^each twelve-month period for four years," de- clared General Foods Corp.'s Colby Chester in announcing half-year profits of 18,000, a slight gain over the same period of last year...