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Softly, Taitou, Leader of the Ethiopian women on that bloody March 1, 1896, was the Empress Taitou, fourth wife of Menelik II. A more polite version of her predecessor's part in the battle of Adowa was given last fortnight by plump Empress Menen, only wife of Power-of-Trinity, as she nibbled pink iced cake and drank jasmine tea at Addis Ababa...
...most electrochemists Columbia University's Colin Garfield Fink is the man who found a practical way to make chromium stick to other metals by electroplating. Plump, grizzled Dr. Fink has done other valuable work electroplating with tungsten and rhenium but he worked longest and hardest with chromium. When he found that sulphate ions from ordinary sulphuric acid in his plating bath would do the trick, automobiles, kitchens and modern furniture began to take on a new appearance...
...late 20's, plump, moderately pretty. Though it is her third trip to New York and she will not be taken in by the old trade wheeze about "going down to Canal Street to see the canal,"* she is excited, brings along too many clothes. She arrives in a long-sleeved black dress, finds the temperature 88°. The store allows her $8 a day and carfare. She registers at the Hotel McAlpin, convenient to the garment centre. After notifying the Times and the Women's Wear Daily of her arrival, she calls on her store...
...With the aid of an order from President Roosevelt opening income tax returns to their inspection, Senate snoopers found that plump Vice President Fred S. Burroughs of Associated Gas & Electric had a salary of $60,000 paid by one of plump Howard C. Hopson's holding companies which in turn charged other companies in the system an aggregate of $150,000 a year for their respective shares of Mr. Burroughs' services...
...last week plump, dark-haired Widow Pansy Yount, Founder Lee and six other stockholders met in a private room at First National Bank of Houston. On hand to greet them was a Houston lawyer named Wright Morrow. In Lawyer Morrow's checking account at First National was a credit of approximately $46,000,000. Among the eight stockholders he distributed a handful of checks, also totaling $46,000,000, drawn on his account. In return he received all the stock of the Yount-Lee Oil Co. at a price of approximately $2,190 per share. Biggest check went...