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...Washington Mrs. Rita Nickel sued a department store for $50,000 because a male employe opened the door of a closet in which she was trying on a dress...
...school when he was 15, sold candy on trains, acted in small time vaudeville, been an agent for Victrola records. There was nothing then to confirm his impression that he was a singer except the fact that his mother, annoyed by his childish caterwaulings, had often given him a nickel to keep quiet. Tammany Politician James Hagan helped him get jobs?the first one singing ten times a day in a burlesque theatre...
Tungsten is one of the hardest metals. Its melting point is high, 2,974° C. It is more lustrous than silver, nickel or chromium. Most important commercially is its resistance to corrosives. Only nitric acid and hot hydroxide solutions affect tungsten. Factories dealing with chemicals need just such a resistant to coat their pipes and pots...
Having sold their nickel weekly Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden, Publishers Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson last week negotiated the sale of the factory which made Liberty's cheap paper at Tonawanda, N. Y., to International Paper & Power Co. for $4,000,000. But the rumor that they would retire further from the publishing business, that they would sell their Chicago Tribune to William Wrigley Jr., Albert Davis Lasker et al. (TIME, April 13) had by last week lost most of its steam. First direct quotation of Publisher McCormick on the subject appeared in the form of a note...