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...America were given a first look at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's new spectroscopic laboratory. President Karl Taylor Compton of the Institute and Professor George Russell Harrison, who has charge of the new shop, showed the physicists about. The new building is constructed like and really is an icebox. The outer walls-4 ft. thick-are of brick, 8 in. of cork, an air space and concrete. Within that well-insulated casing is an inner structure of ten rooms. The inner building has its own, separate foundations, is further insulated from the outer husk by 6 in. of dead...
...world. A glacier moves down on the hostelry, assuring certain death to all the guests. The Free Thinkers reconsider, elect "Monsieur God" president. Then the cooks rebel, led by a Napoleonic elevator man (Claude Rains). The scullery boys rebel against the cooks, lock up the head chef in the icebox. Whip in hand, the elevator man appeals to M. God for support, not that, he believes in him, but because the rest of the people...
Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. ("Don't wonder at the tremendous grosses the Paramount Exhibitor is piling up. He's not pulling 1929 pictures out of the icebox and hoping they'll eat 'em up; he's giving them 1930 Paramount hits right off the fire and they're flocking to the feast" [advertisement in Jan. 8 Variety] ) : $15,500,000 (estimated) as against...
...products, the parallelism is nearly perfect. Each organization can offer a car for every pocketbook. Balancing General Motors, Chrysler has "everything except an icebox...
Joseph Montana, "king of bootleggers," felt he needed a new ice box in his apartment on Chicago's West Side. He ordered one weighing 500 Ibs. Two draymen delivered it last week. As they placed it on the rear porch, the porch gave way. Down, three stories, plunged icebox and draymen. One drayman died...