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...landing, covered 20,000 miles. The Lomen brothers, who had found the reindeer industry no gold mine, were glad to sell out. On the few others who refused, Burdick slapped condemnation proceedings. He ingratiated himself with the Eskimos by dealing out not only reindeer but great quantities of bubble gum. The Government will collect the herds he purchased in reindeer corrals built by the Eskimo CCC, will lend reindeer to Eskimos for breeding, or in cases of destitution, for meat and clothing...
...dressing the Second Music Box Revue. Rudolph Valentino's wife, Natacha Rambova, took him from Broadway to Hollywood to make her husband's clothes, and Adrian has been dressing movie folk ever since. At M. G. M. he inhabits an oyster-white office, works furiously chewing gum, deep in an over stuffed chair which is disconcertingly set on a dais to keep him from dropping paint on the oyster-white carpet. In the groove, he can turn out a sketch in 20 minutes. Dresses like those in Susan and God cost M. G. M. between...
...Bulbulian takes pride in matching flesh tints, in decorating his noses with tiny pores and wrinkles. Both noses and ears are glued on with a liquid adhesive made of mastic gum dissolved in chloroform or benzene. Like false teeth, false noses and ears must be doffed at night...
...apparel, paper, missionaries. From Mediterranean docks, the U. S. got a $153,677,000 import trade. Of this, too, American Export freighters carried the lion's share: long-staple cotton from Alexandria, olive oil from Piraeus and Leghorn, china from Beirut, cheese, rayon and vermouth from Genoa, pistachios, gum arabic, rags, onions, rice and tobacco. All told, the spread of war to the Mediterranean cost the U. S. a $316,439,000 export-import business, to be added to the $470,177,000 already lost in trade with Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and subsequent victims of Nazi might. This...
...also, worried last week over a rival coop, Gum Turpentine Farmers Cooperative Association, formed last year at Vidalia, Ga., by small Georgia producers, to buck the influence of factors in the A. T. F. A. Headed by mild, sandy-haired William Capers Rice, 38, mayor of Vidalia, Gum Turp. last year won an estimated $1,000,000 reduction in factorage interest rates and handling charges. It aims now to get rid of small stills dependent on factors, pool output in a central still system...