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...Fairgoer may order his Chevrolet in the morning, see it put together during the day, drive off in it at evening. He may watch Firestone turn crude rubber and chemicals into finished automobile tires, one every ten minutes. Phoenix Hosiery will show women how silk stockings are woven. Quaker Oats Co. will steam, roll, pack 100 cases of breakfast food per hour. Only inactive spot will be the airy, peaceful TIME-FORTUNE building, carefully designed as "A Place to Sit Down" and containing the world's biggest rack of current periodicals...
...half million gallons, little over a year's estimated demand, of such bonded drinks legally exist. But that supply is 16 and more years old. Wholesale prices quoted last week for cases of 24 pint bottles included: WTood-ford Bourbon $27.50, King Cole Bourbon $35, Old Quaker Bourbon $38.50, Old Quaker Rye $42.50, Golden Wedding $43.50, Gibson $45 to $49-50, and $53-50 for Old Overholt, the good red liquor which, with Andrew William Mellon's aid, helped found the fortune of the late Henry Clay Frick...
Nora Waln's ancestors, Quaker merchants of Philadelphia, had long traded amicably with the Lin family of Hopei and Canton, but no Lin had actually met a Waln till a Lin husband and wife, touring the Western World, called on Nora Waln when she was a student at Swarthmore. They invited her to visit them in China; in 1920 she did, and liked it so well she is still a Chinese resident. Main house of the Lins is in Canton, but her friends were members of the Hopei branch. Their "House of Exile" has been occupied by the family...
...last quarter of his trip (through a country of "real estate agents, Quaker Oats, electrocutions, cement roads, motorists and Gideon Bibles") Tschiffely spends few words. With pardonable pride, however, he tells how Mancha, his spirit still unbroken after some 10,000 mi., convinced a Governors Island sergeant he was unridable. After a Jimmy Walker reception in Manhattan, all three sailed back to the Argentine in grand style, Tschiffely to a triumphant homecoming, Mancha and Gato to a carefree old age on their native pampas...
...Voice of the Younger Generation," Modern Youth is less articulate than its editor, pretty Viola Ilma, 22, less remarkable than the story she tells of herself: She is the granddaughter of a Swiss Quaker missionary and an Abyssinian princess. Her father calls himself Prince Ali Youssuf Ilma, played character parts on the Manhattan stage. Six years ago Miss Ilma won a $10,000 prize from Liberty for an article. "The Aim of the Modern High School Girl." Liberty last week said it had no record of that award. But Editrix Ilma's story continues: She went around the world...