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...Berlin the Nazi Press all but screamed despair. "This system of treaties," said the Berliner Tageblatt, "means the attainment of French dominance over Europe with the assent of Russia and Poland." In his personal newsorgan the No. 2 Nazi, General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, raged against "This fad for pacts, this pactomania!" In another groaning outburst the Berliner Tageblatt declared: "Thus France has arrived at last where Clemenceau wanted...
...American Can Co. goes much of the credit for converting what might have been a fad into a permanent national drink. It helped keep inferior grades off the market by demonstrating, even before 1929, that tomato juice must come only from the best tomatoes, could not be considered a mere byproduct. Today tomato juice canning is a highly specialized six-week business, running from August to October. Tomatoes are brought to the factory the day they are picked on the farm, usually no more than 75 miles away. The juice is forced under mechanical pressure through a fine screen...
...famed guests. Riding requires a warm and weighty costume, and many a Californian finds clothes a nuisance. So Mrs. Coffman sold some of her horses, put bicycles in the empty stalls. Film stars soon began to wheel madly around & around Palm Springs. Bicycling became a raging West Coast fad, spread rapidly to the East. Thus was born last year's bicycle boom which dropped unsought into the laps of U.S. bicycle makers. In the middle of the 1890's when Daisy Bell ("But you'd look sweet on the seat of a bicycle built...
...crying, "I cannot bear to look at them" (TIME, Nov. 20). The photographs were of a woman who had got some "Lash-Lure," an eyebrow & eyelash dye, in her eyes. Last fortnight the Journal of the American Medical Association reported 17 such victims of the latest U. S. beauty fad, one of them facing total blindness. First city in the land to act was New York. Last week its Health Department banned the manufacture, sale and use of brow & lash dyes containing aniline derivatives or metallic salts...
...spread among the fields of learning. Today we would re-unite them, feeling--that knowledge should not be divided into water-tight compartments. The historical approach provides a convenient common denominator. Direct, easily grasped and universally applicable, it already dominates the teaching of the arts, and with the current fad for the History of Philosophy and of Science, it is creeping into other fields...