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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Santa Monica and Long Beach certain long, low rods of red light glowing steadily through the Pacific nights have marked the positions of California's "floating casinos," the gambling ships Rex, Texas, Showboat and Tango. Rows of scarlet neon lights picked them out from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might crave...
...quite satisfied, a Negro editor from Nashville sounded the brass for the election of a "consecrated, learned, experienced black minister" as president of the Alliance, to "answer the challenge from barbaric paganism." He nominated Dr. Lacey Kirk Williams, learned black pastor of one of the world's largest churches, Chicago's Olivet Baptist (membership: some 10,000). The Alliance then elected Dr. Rushbrooke its president. There was no more nonsense about color, most delegates feeling that Atlanta, which quietly shelved some of its racial laws during the congress, had kept tar-baby trouble at a minimum...
Ventriculoscope. Buried in the middle of the brain are four ventricles or water reservoirs, the two largest shaped like a pair of ram's horns. Each ventricle is partly lined with feathery tissue called the choroid plexus. Function of the choroid plexus is to generate the fluid which bathes the outside of the brain and spinal cord. If the choroid plexus produces abnormal quantities of water, or if the brain fails to absorb the fluid which bathes it, hydrocephalus occurs...
...Large-flock commercial breeders account for only a fraction of the total output. Largest egg factory is California's Runnymede Farm. Its top capacity: 325,000 laying hens...
Carpenter organized the National Chip Steak Co., set out with a trailer and a steak-making outfit to demonstrate and sell. Last week he reached Chicago having licensed the process en route to Western and Midwestern manufacturers (the largest at a $10,000 fee). In addition to license fees, National Chip Steak Co. collects ⅛? per steak royalty. Present output of "Chip Steaks" is at the rate of 30,000,000 a year, monthly royalties about $2,500. By the end of 1939 Carpenter expects to see royalties of $5,000 a month. Chip Steak Corp. of Illinois which began...