Word: filles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheffield steel firm, Thomas W. Ward Ltd., who recently bought the liner Majestic to break up for scrap. The Admiralty offered a handsome sum to buy the Majestic, seeking to turn her into a training ship. Ward & Co. were not unwilling to sell but pointed out that to fill other contracts they were in immediate need of metal. At this the Admiralty threw in two old British submarines suitable for scrap in part payment for the German-built Majestic, once "The World's Largest And Fastest Liner...
Last week Philip Morris announced that in all 48 States retailers would now get an extra package with every carton. Reason: Philip Morris sales had tripled or quadrupled in States where the free package had been supplied retailers. Cost of the 20 extra cigarets required to fill standard orders was charged to advertising- the valuable word-of-mouth advertising which retailers do across the counter. Neat point about the Philip Morris plan was that if any retailer starts to spoil it by selling for less than 15? a package, Philip Morris can presumably stop him by simply withdrawing its gift...
MIDNIGHT-Julian Green-Harper ($2.50). Fantastic melodrama revolving around an old house and a creepy crew of eccentrics who fill it, in the vein of Author Green's Avarice House and The Closed Garden...
...They also prescribe glasses; in fact any physician may legally do so, though most nonspecialists do not. Optometrists do not need a medical degree, must be licensed, are not allowed to give medicinal or surgical treatment. They examine for refractive errors such as astigmatism, nearsightedness, farsightedness, prescribe lenses, generally fill their own prescriptions in a back room...
...increased the demand, for platinum is used not only as a catalyst in the manufacture of nitrates and sulphuric acid, but also in the detonating devices of shells. In the U. S. the Wartime price was fixed at $105 an oz., and newly developed deposits in Colombia could not fill the demand. After the War, when price-fixing ended, platinum rocketed above $170. Then in the early 1920's new platinum deposits were discovered in South Africa and in the late 1920's it began to be recovered in Canada's nickel mines as a byproduct...