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...sold only for export. Smalltime lead-pencil makers generally retail their product under 5?. Most popular color for lead-pencils is yellow. Big pencil manufacturers inserted in their code a provision prohibiting the manufacture of yellow pencils to be sold below 5?. All coffee roasters insert "filler" into their packaged products. Big producers use chicory. Little producers use roasted cereals. The coffee code specifies that when cereal is used for filler the package must be so labeled. No such notice is required for chicory fillers. The use of "that common abomination, the basing-point trick" works to the advantage...
...that the miscegenation which will solve our soft-pedalled race problem will produce a hybrid people of wit, ingenuity and capability not at all inferior to the smugly haughty pure Americano, and comely to boot. Point for point this black-and-tan show surpasses the usual run of stage filler offered in the movie mosques; this is said with full consciousness that "Harlem on Parade" is in places unduly dull, smutty, and often merely nerve-shattering...
...Wonder Bar"--Columbia recording. From the movie of the same name. Emil Coleman's orchestra gives the tune the proper sentimental treatment; it is much better than the Victor recording with Freddy Martin's orchestra which depends entirely on the too tricky booming bass effects. The backing is merely filler: "I Love Gardenias" from the "Palais Royal Revue...
...Houses themselves it was found that around the round tops of some of the windows the wood has pulled away from the brick, and has there by necessitated a complete recaulking with plastic filler around the sashes at the top in order to prevent water and wind from coming in through the cracks...
...fact that two-thirds of American newsprint now is imported. Spruce pulpwood costs $9 to $10 a ton. Pine in the South sells for $3.50. . . . Most of the sulphur used in papermaking is hauled from Louisiana to Canada, right through the South. Much of the clay for filler for book paper in America is produced by the three Georgia counties, Washington, Bibb and Wilkinson. It is now shipped Ions distances. In Georgia it almost literally clings to the roots of pine that can be made into good white paper...