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...annual consumption is well over 100,000,000 lb. and there are no substitutes for it, not even soybean, castor or other oils, however processed. The versatile tung provides the fastest vegetable oil paint and varnish dryer. It gives to paints a tough, elastic, heat-resisting surface. It waterproofs paints and varnishes, printing inks, electrical insulation, brakebands, linoleum. It resists acids and is therefore a good interior coating for citrus fruit cans. So important is the oil that it is deliverable in the trade only on A-2 priority orders...
...Sept. 2 and what should I come across but an article on the Duchess of Windsor, whom I had admired. She sent for Wayne Forrest, a famous hairdresser, to come to Nassau to do her hair. For this trip he had to fly and bring a permanent-wave dryer, packets of nail polish, rouge, powder, lipstick. All this would cost a large sum of money...
...Duchess of Windsor asking that Manhattan Hairdresser Wayne Forrest be sent at once to Nassau to do her hair for an important reception. To Nassau, where the Duchess and her Governor-Husband obligingly held hands for photographers, the hairdresser flew on 24 hours' notice, with a permanent wave dryer, packets of nail polish, rouge, powder, lipstick...
...from England by his printer father when he was four, he went West in a wagon train at 18, traded shots with Indians, turned down a bartender's job in Portland to set type for a weekly paper also called the Oregonian. His liquor-loving boss, Thomas J. Dryer, finally gave him the paper for back wages in 1860 and went off to the Sandwich Islands as a U. S. Commissioner. On Feb. 4, 1861, before he was 26, Pittock founded the daily Oregonian...
...water, the floe began to break up. Last fortnight a hurricane reduced it to 200 yards by 300. Last week it was down to 50 yards by 70. When the part of the floe on which their tent stood was submerged, the scientists stolidly moved the tent to higher & dryer ice. calmly radioed to Moscow: "We. . . . have saved all our instruments and records and we have food for three months. The floe goes on cracking. There is no room for a radio antenna, so we have erected a second mast on a nearby floe...