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Revenues were up, expenditures down, said he; the State had a $69,000,000 surplus. New deductions had been added to the state income-tax law; the legislature had been reapportioned, according to law. Some progress had been made "in cleaning out the accumulated cobwebs and dry rot." Said he, with just the right shade of modesty, "We have made a good start...
Heroics and Death. Hamilton reported that in three years of civil war, at least 1,000,000 Spaniards lost their lives (more than the British Empire's total losses in World War I). More than 300,000 Loyalists escaped, and 500,000 more rot in Franco's jails. For these sacrifices, Franco gave Spain...
...version of the yarn tells of a cowboy named Rot-Gut Pete who fell victim to a giant flycatcher plant in Arizona. Searchers for him found only a watch, 42 boot nails, 11 buttons, a six-shooter, a belt buckle and two silver dollars...
...alcohol (TIME, Sept. 14). The distillers looked over their whiskey stocks, discovered they had 480,000,000 bbl., enough to last only two years unless the U.S. stops drinking so fast and hoarding so much. If the war lasts that long it would mean no whiskey to sell, dry rot in costly distributing organizations and the fade-out of valuable trade names. So the distillers went after wine with a rush. And they picked a good thing: U.S. wine consumption has jumped from 66,000,000 gal. in 1937 to 111,000,000 gal. last year, and demand is still...
...overseer of an African rubber plantation, whose greatest problems are monotonous isolation and attempts to keep an assistant at the jungle outpost for longer than six months. The film begins with the arrival of a new assistant (Richard Carlson), whose many good intentions are soon destroyed by the dry rot and the charms of scheming Tondelayo (Lamarr). As soon as Carlson starts laying in "many silks and bangles" for the gold digging Tondelayo his days are numbered, but before he returns to civilization with a good case of malaria he manages to marry the native minx and thereby snap...