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recently, while feeding her horse a lump of sugar, lost a $5,000 solitaire from her finger, which the horse swallowed. Scrapings from the manure pile for several weeks failed to reveal the ring. X-rays were taken which also failed to locate it. Full value has been paid by an insurance company which claims the horse at death since it is illegal to kill the animal without the owner's permission...
Four hundred uniformed young women tend the machines which sew and fill sacks of granulated sugar, fold and fill boxes of lump sugar in a factory at Lille, France. Flitting fingers, fixed eyes, bent heads heed every zip, snip, swish, zoop, bupp, bopp of the machines-60 seconds every minute, 60 minutes every hour, 40 hours every week...
...best free rail route from Manhattan to the West Coast (Pennsylvania, Chicago & Alton, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande, Western Pacific) ; some fatherly counsel from Dean Danny O'Brien of the inter mittent New York Hobo College to incipient boes : "It is dangerous when bumming a lump [begging a handout] to tease or provoke the dog. . . . When through with cans, pans, etc. in jungles [hobo camps] always leave them clean. . . . Don't mix too much with tramps or bums,* or you'll be demoralized...
...latest move in the simplification program is to lump the same Hearst Consolidated properties, with one exception-the profitable New York Evening Journal-in a wholly-owned subsidiary called Hearst Publications, Inc., which now proposes to offer $22,500,000 worth of bonds to the public. Nearly all the proceeds will be used to pay off bank loans and refund old bond issues, many carrying William Randolph Hearst's personal guarantee...
...they died before retirement their estates would receive 4% of their aggregate salaries in a lump sum (under Social Security...