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Concrete result of the White House negotiations was almost nil, Premier Laval departing vastly puffed and pleased by a verbal agreement that he should summon the German Ambassador on his return to Paris and start Germany taking the initiative for a final settlement of her troubles by appealing under the Young Plan for a committee to study them, which has now been done...
...quick-tempered, Ben Belt is still an excellent horseman, a better salesman. He decided Lorillard should have its Old Gold, in fact must have it if it would stay in the race. The name Old Gold then belonged to a Lorillard brand of smoking tobacco whose sales were almost nil. The name appealed to Belt and the cigaret became his chief care and enthusiasm, still is except for his horses. But cigarets are not made popular in a day. Lorillard earnings shrank almost to nothing during the promotion years. It took many months and millions of dollars to make...
...worked out at 3 marks per day. Of this, 50 pfennigs represents the man's wage, plus 2 marks 50 pfennigs for his food. As former Saxon army barracks were used, and as the 120 washed their own bedding, the cost of lodging them was figured as nil...
...Marines defeated Harvard in Cambridge by 26 to nil. Since then the Marines have lost several players. Harvard on the other hand has shown remarkable improvement, especially in the back division. Mr. T. P. Fry, their coach, has had about 90 men available this season as against the 19 candidates in 1930." Then followed a personal and individual discussion of each of the regular Harvard players. BY TIME...
...advertise the hotel. Recently the Department of Commerce ruled that only beacons actually on an established airway might use white lights; all others must be red. The hotel placed a red screen over the lens of its searchlight, but the rays were so weakened that advertising value was nil. Last month the light was discontinued. Exceptions to the red-light rule: the Lindbergh Beacon atop Chicago's Palmolive building; the revolving light on Washington's Wardman Park Hotel...