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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the nation was once again in the violent grip of a crazy song. The successor to K-K-K-Katy (1918) and Barney Google (1923) was selling a-copy-a-minute over sheet music counters, might well go on to the fabulous two million high of Yes, We Have No Bananas (1923). The three U. S. phonograph companies (Victor. Decca, Brunswick-Columbia) were distributing the tune under their dozen-odd labels. A tie, a sofa, a cigaret holder were named after the piece. At the St. Paul Hotel in St. Paul, Minn., Bandmaster Bernie Cummins reported...
...that contains carbon, since carbon is a notable component of plants and animals. Lately Rockefeller Institute researchers have isolated in the form of crystals a virus which causes a plant disease called tobacco mosaic. The virus seems to consist of a protein molecule with a molecular weight of several million units. In most respects it is not alive; the crystal structure, for example, is typical of inanimate materials such as metal. But when it makes contact with plant tissue, the molecules at once acquire the ability to reproduce themselves-a prime prerequisite of life...
Discussing the history of the cosmetics, Dr. Blaisdell pointed out the great rise of the business in the United States since 1868, when the first beauty parlor was established in Philadelphia; today there are 30,000 and their business amounts to 200 million...
LIKE John Gilbert. Charles Farrell, when the talkies came, failed to reveal a voice that matched the before vigor be displayed in winning silent becomes. When be made Seventh Heaven which Janet Caynor be become the darling of a million ladies. They wanted cuteness in love, they found in for a long time in Charbe Parrell and Janet Gaynor. Then Charlie did a talking picture version of Libom in a role that called for the bluff and tender in a man. His voice was too thin and without nuance...
Questioned concerning his views of the Townsend Plan the governor replied flatly. "It's crazy. It's a gold brick. I think it will die out. It's too foolish to live. There are approximately ten million people eligible. At the late of $200 a month per person it would about to 24 billion a year, just about half the present income. It would cheapen our money, so that in a year's time the $200 a month would pay just about $30 rent and eventually the money wouldn't be worth anything. If we could get security that cheap...