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...publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis paid $1,000 for the Satevepost (circulation: 1,800) it was a dull little rehash of British journals. Yale-educated young Lorimer, a modestly paid 30-year-old reporter on the Boston Post and only three years out of Armour & Co.'s Chicago glue works, heard of the purchase, hastily wired Cyrus Curtis, was hired as literary editor at $40 a week. He became full-fledged chief after a few weeks, threw out the shears and pastepot. For the next four decades, from nine to five he bustled in action at Independence Square, went...
...When Your In Love" strikes a new low in movie production. Grace Moore, looking as if she were stuck together with glue and paint, arches her new eyebrows, two inches above her old ones and is glowing with acquired charm for a period of an exceedingly boring hour and a half...
Factory. Each ton of soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...
...wire, then soldered and painted. Microscopic details like vines, pine needles and cones were etched out of paper-thin sheets of copper picked up with a magnet. Dentists' picks and scrapers were used for modeling tools. Making rocks was the most fun. A double fistful of whiting and glue was allowed to harden, then hurled full force against the studio wall. The fragments, painted in oils and dusted with dry color, were rocks...
...eight-minute dynamite fuse led into the guncotton, which was contained in a wadding of a New Yorkers, glue, canvas, etc. That Memorial Hall stands today unbowed by their efforts has not discouraged the bombers, who are now planning a second attempt, to be executed in the best Med. Fac. style...