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...Blue calico dress for Susie Bigfoot; 30 Ib. boiling beef for Hudson's; 4 pr. gumboots size 11 Lucky Strike Mining Co.; dozen phonograph records assorted Joe Slisco; rosebush knocked down deputy marshal; 2 live pigs not exceed 10 Ib.; 2 Ib. epsom salts...
...Morton Downey, who has earned $4,500 a week with his ballading ever since young President William Samuel Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System used him to lure Camel's cigaret advertising from National Broadcasting Co. Kate Smith's story is another one based on tobacco. Her 240 Ib. and an easy, tricky way of singing had scarcely identified her with musicomedy when La Palina cigars snatched her up for a sum appropriate to her size. Joe White ("The Silver-Masked Tenor"), Jack Smith ("The Whispering Baritone") and B. A. Rolfe (Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra) prove that the dial...
...veins but Katanga's ore lies so close to the surface they do their prospecting by airplane. Labor costs are on a like scale. A Bantu boy working hard in Katanga's opencut mines gets about $5 a month. Production costs come to about 4?per Ib. African mines can deliver copper in England or the U. S. for about 7?-the present world price, ruinous to most other producers...
...resistance are expected to give it many commercial uses now denied to rubber, but so far it has not been produced in a form sufficiently pliable for use in automobile tires. Du Pont officials believed that in spite of the present low price of rubber (about 5^ per Ib.) Duprene would have enough uses to warrant its production on a large scale, could be developed to replace natural rubber entirely in case the U. S. supply were shut off. In addition to Duprene, an artificial latex (mother liquid of rubber) was also produced from chloroprene which can impregnate porous materials...
Critics of the Navy's lighter-than-air policy, notably the New York Sun, made much of the facts that the Akron is 20,000 Ib. overweight and that she can fly only 79 m.p.h. instead of 84, as specified. Of the overweight, Navy & builders replied that they foresaw and announced it last summer (TIME, July 20); that it was caused by deliberate increase of strength and safety factor, partly by changes in Navy specifications; that it amounts to only 3% of the total weight and will not materially affect the ship's performance. The $25,000 penalty...