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...overcoats and soft hats who came into the Easton. Pa. post office one morning last week was the shape and weight of the six packages they shoved through the window. The packages seemed identical. Each was about 10 in. long, 5 in. wide, 5 in. deep. Each weighed 6 Ib. Yet the senders, in arguing about the packages' value, insisted each contained something different. They were "gifts," the men said: one package contained perfumery, another clothing, another a desk set. . . . The men seemed in a hurry. They argued for only a moment, then paid for their stamps and left...
...into service super-swift Northrop monoplanes which cut the transcontinental flying time down to 24 hr. for mail. Last week T. & W. A. had its reward. Los Angeles mail was rerouted by the Post Office to T. & W. A., the company's space contract upped from 225 Ib. to 750 Ib. per plane...
Rescued from the dark and taken to Gallinger Hospital, Edith was found to weigh 38 Ib. Her legs were too spindly to support her shrunken body. She stared at nurses with lifeless eyes. In six weeks, however, she learned to play with dolls and children, gained 20 Ib. In court the child heard but did not pay much attention to her parents' defense: that Edith "was given to certain vicious practices," that she had to be kept away from neighborhood children, that her stepmother was not "mentally responsible...
...world's supply of radium is a little less than 1 Ib. It is worth about $23,000,000. Several hundred tons of carnotite or pitchblende are required to produce one ounce of radium, after a laborious, costly process. Decade ago Colorado and Utah carnotite deposits had made the U. S. the world's largest radium producer but richer ore was found in the Belgian Congo and Radium Beige soon had established a monopoly. The Belgians have retorted that when the U. S. produced it the price was twice as high...
...Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta. Nobody ever called him anything but Diego Rivera, though many critics call him the greatest mural painter in the western hemisphere. If he is not the greatest, he is certainly the largest. His bulkiest rival. Joseph Urban, tips the scales at 230 Ib. Mural Painter Rivera displaced 250 Ib. the last time he was weighed; friends claim that he has expanded greatly since then...