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...Garden of Allah's weak point is its story, its strong point is its female star. In the first place, to Marlene Dietrich's golden hair and porcelain skin, color is more complimentary than it has been to any other actress who has so far tried it. In the second place, the North African desert is her specialty. In the third place, if there is any actress in Hollywood whom cinemaddicts have always yearned to see in the flesh-to which color film is the closest practical approach-Marlene Dietrich...
Roosevelt sent a collection of five porcelain donkeys, squatting on their haunches, tooting saxophones...
Chlamydozoa are so small that they filter through the pores of unglazed porcelain. Filterable likewise, and invisible by means of the most potent microscopes yet invented, are 25 other substances which are known to cause specific diseases (infantile paralysis, common cold, mumps) and 21 substances which are presumed to cause in man scarlet fever, trachoma, encephalitis, influenza, measles, German measles, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, venereal warts...
Like its bigger competitor, General Electric, Westinghouse spraddles the entire field of electrical equipment. At its tremendous East Pittsburgh works it can make anything from waterwheel generators for Boulder Dam to complete power and control apparatus for steel rolling mills. At Derry, Pa. and Emeryville, Calif, it fabricates porcelain insulators. The Chicopee Falls (Mass.) plant turns out radio equipment. The Newark (N. J.) plant manufactures metres. Power transformers and transmission equipment are produced at Sharon, Pa. Diesel-electric units, steam turbines, marine reducing gears emerge from the South Philadelphia works. A Long Island City (N. Y.) plant specializes...
Autocar's first catalog in 1898 listed a $450 "package carrier fitted with special gear, capacity 700 Ib. including driver." For the next few years Autocar was a popular passenger make, sporting a propeller shaft at a time when most cars were chain-driven. It pioneered the porcelain spark plug in the U. S., and its thread has since become standard for all spark plugs. In 1911 Autocar started to specialize on trucks, now makes models from 2%½ ton to 15½ ton capacity. An Autocar feature was long the under-the-seat motor, now being adopted...