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...Chicago's Anti-Cruelty Society. The barkers for Ideal Dog Food were housed in a 26-ft.-wide shed with triangular glass front projecting from the sign's centre. To keep them comfortable there had been installed $6,000 worth of airconditioning. There were also a 30-gal. water tank, blue-lighted kennels, a drinking fountain, awnings, Venetian blinds, sleeping quarters for an attendant in the rear. Only pedigreed dogs-to be furnished free by members of the Midwest Puppy Match Association- will be displayed. Occupants will be changed weekly. Last week's Boston terriers were...
...interest the Exposition will have a force of rangerettes complete with chaps and 10-gal. hats, who will act as ushers, tell timid matrons where to find comfort stations, etc. As official hostess was chosen 21-year-old Frances Nalle, with the title of Texas "Bluebonnet Girl."† And last week at San Antonio, Governor Allred crowned Janice Jarrat, artists' model (whose portrait appears on the cover of June Cosmopolitan) as the "Sweetheart of Texas Centennial" with the duty of acting as mistress of ceremonies at all the Fair's broadcasts, appearing at all major Centennial celebrations during...
...corn "gluten," and starch, which are separated by flotation. The corn "gluten" which contains approximately 30% unremoved starch, is combined with the hull, fibre and steep water to make a product - corn gluten feed, which is sold to the dairy industry. For each bushel of corn ground, approximately 7 gal. of 4°-5° of Be' "steep water" are obtained. Based on a yearly industry grind of 60,000,000 bu., the amount of "steep water" amounts to approximately 400,000,000 gal. instead of quarts as published...
...Higher surtaxes in $3,000-to-$100,000 brackets: $226,000,000. About 30 excise taxes on farm products at rates lower than the extinct processing taxes: $221,000,000. An increase of the Federal gasoline tax from 1? to 1½?per gal.: $80,000,000. Louder groans than before rose from the House committee. Compared to these burdensome taxes, with their low yield, the President's tax on undivided profits seemed the least of many evils...
...under most of the State. By drilling wells to the limestone, water can be tapped and in many places brought to the surface like a stream from a firehose. So much water flows through the limestone that, for example, Silver Springs, close to Ocala, pours out 400,000,000 gal. per day, about as much as New York City consumes in 24 hours...