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Life Is Real. In Washington, a patent was awarded to Charles T. Jacobs for a device that keeps the ice in a cocktail shaker from diluting the "dividend." In Des Moines, the Iowa legislature voted to protect ladies in sailboats from getting splashed by making it unlawful for a motorboat to pass a sailboat to the windward...
...Pipe not only has plenty of iron, but it also has another source of revenue: based on Sloss-Sheffield's $6 annual dividend-U.S. Pipe will get $327,000 in 1943, almost 8% on its investment...
...Dividend. In Chicago, Gin Moy was convicted of pinching a couple of showgirls, caught sight of them in court, ran over and pinched them again, went off to jail laughing happily...
Families on relief can buy a dollar's worth of orange stamps, good for any food, get free a 50% dividend in blue stamps good only for "surplus" foods. This month the foods on the free list include pancake and whole wheat flour, corn meal and hominy grits, dry beans, potatoes, fresh vegetables, apples-all plentiful but hardly surplus. Also included: eggs-obviously not a surplus commodity to customers who pay 60? to 80? a dozen for them in big cities...
...dividend checks include all purchases made in 1941-42 up to last June. The checks of those students who have left the University to enter the Armed Services, or for other reasons, will have their checks mailed to them. The dividend is ten per cent on charged articles and 12 per cent on cash purchases...