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...experimented with home-grown smells. Its pretty chemist, black-eyed Noemi Garcia Arrilaga, specializes in extracting the .essence of the coffee flower. Some months ago, Senorita Arrilaga thought she had it. was further encouraged by local distributors who said it had a "pervading tropical fragrance with a come-hither accent." The distributors have yet to persuade U.S. perfume brewers, who fall into two general classes, 1) the topnotchers,. who claim there is no adequate substitute for their dwindling hoards of French, Bulgarian, Chinese and Tibetan essences, and 2) volume producers who claim that any hew product will have...
...chief responsibility for the tumult in the Office of Civilian Defense has been blamed on its head, round-bottomed Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, but Eleanor Roosevelt, flitting hither & yon, distributing White House roses among her colleagues' desks, has not notably succeeded in straightening things out. Last fortnight, deciding that OCD workers in Washington did not get enough recreation, she got hold of a portable phonograph, at lunch hours led 40 or 50 workers up to the roof to dance Virginia Reels. "Her intentions," said one admirer, "were swell." The First Lady typified the earnestness and confusion with which U.S. women...
...mindful of thy favour and glad to do thy will. Bless our land with honourable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogancy, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that, through obedience to thy law, we may show forth thy praise among the nations...
Before the fall of France the N.E.I. were no more cognizant of the Nazis' might than any other land on the hither side of the Rhine. When the Indies woke up they woke up with a bang and got to work immediately without any ifs, ands or buts. Their alarm clock was Hubertus J. van Mook, Director of the Department of Economic Affairs. In the summer of 1940 the U.S. woke up to the fact that available stocks of tin and rubber would not last a full normal year. Mr. van Mook had the tin and rubber...
...that one hundred years from now this park will still belong ... to the people of a free nation . . . will not be in the hands of some strange kind of government puppet subject to an overseas overlord. I hope the use of it will not be confined to people coming hither on government-specified days and on government-directed tours...