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...less affected than the standard staples were minor commodities. In the past month kerosene has gone from 4½? to 5? per gal., linseed oil from less than 9½? to 10? per lb., wool from 92? to $1.01 per lb. In London, where one can speculate in dried flies and ant eggs, an all-time high was set for copra. The New York Journal of Commerce reported a rise in balsam copaiba, a tight market in gum benzoin and "no sign of any relief in the shortage of eucalyptus...
...taken refuge from the photographer, Newt made a hit playing river music on his homemade one-man-band contraption. Pearl, following her husband's second reappearance, was about to clear for Chicago with a crooner, and Ernie was on the brink of a new wedding with a river gal (Katherine DeMille) when Newt nailed Pearl and Ernie in the barge-boat cabin. At last he found reason to strike up St. Louis Blues. Best tunes: With a Banjo On My Knee, There's Something in the Air. Best scene: Miss Stanwyck and the crooner sitting side by side...
Week after taking Governor Alf Landon on a Florida hunting & fishing trip, Guide Walter ("Red") Welner was lost in the woods two days. Speeding through Missouri, the train bearing Governor Landon home to Topeka cut a 1,600-gal. oil truck in two, badly burned the driver...
...with a special "super-engine" of 21 h. p., or for $695 with the standard Baby Austin engine which develops 17 h. p. (rated for tax purposes at 7.8 h. p.). In cheapest standard roadster form, the Austin is offered in Manhattan for $495, with 40 mi. per gal. promised. Efforts to manufacture Austins in the U. S. miserably failed (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935), because they obviously cannot be sold to the U. S. masses in competition with U. S. cars of similar price, but the importers last week hoped to do a brisk trade in "Nippy Sports" as novelties...
Schenley Distillers made $1,716,847 in the third quarter, $4,782,795 for the nine months, a slightly better showing for the long period than in 1935. This year Schenley expanded capacity from 27,000,000 gal. of hard liquor annually to 41,400,000 gal...