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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Easy Living (Paramount). When Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) is riding downtown on top of a Fifth Avenue bus, a sable coat lands on her head. Enraged because the feather in her hat is broken, she insists that J. B. Ball (Edward Arnold), who threw the coat out of his penthouse to enrage his wife, buy her a new hat. He does so. In her new finery, Mary Smith loses her job, makes friends with an amiable young automat waiter (Ray Milland) and, to her amazement, receives an offer of free lodging in a swank hotel, which she and the waiter...
...chinchilla is a hopping rodent about ten inches long. It resembles a cross between a squirrel and a rabbit, with the squirrel's tail. Largest supply lives in Bolivia, Peru & Chile at altitudes between 12,000 and 19,000 feet. Chinchillas live gregariously in rocky burrows, eat leaves and nuts. The prime fur is so dense that fleas and lice cannot penetrate it. Each hair is tipped with black, slate blue about half its length, merging into a delicate pearl grey. Difficult to capture alive, chinchillas are shot by Indians with blow-guns using poisoned darts. The wound...
Mouse Queen Blowers' mice do not scamper madly around her drawing room. They live in nesting boxes-from three to seven in each-stacked in tiers in little huts which hold some 2,000 mice each. Daily they are fed a teaspoonful of oats, alternated with a little stale bread soaked in milk. Mating, classification, feeding, selection for marketing, is a fulltime job for Mrs. Blowers and two assistants. Her mousery produces an average of 1,000 mice a week. Prices range from $1.50 a dozen for mice for experimental laboratories, to $5 to $7.50 each for the best...
...recognize the possibilities in Bengal's ideal climate and magnificent supply of cheap labor (Bengal, with about 50,000,000 inhabitants, is the most densely populated province in India). Working farms of two or three acres apiece, Bengal natives took more land out of rice, on which they live, and planted it with jute. Like cotton, this crop requires arduous cultivation in the hottest season of the year. Most fun for broiling Bengali is "retting"-soaking the cut stalks in pools to ferment the gum out of the fibres, after which the farmers work waist deep in water...
...reliable") balers. Most famed British name in the jute trade is that of Sir David Yule, an extraordinary Scotsman who died in 1928 after making a fortune of $100,000,000 in Calcutta. His dislike of things European relented enough to let him marry an Englishwoman but never to live in England. Since his death, plump, inscrutable Lady Yule and Daughter Gladys ("the richest girl in England") have lived quietly at St. Albans cultivating their private zoo. Their friend, the Duke of Windsor, borrowed the Yule yacht Nahlin for his cruise last summer. When the Yules visited Manhattan last...