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Notes on U.S. customs, habits, manners & morals, as reported in the U.S. press: ¶ New York's Industrial Commissioner Edward Corsi gave his answer to the old question of how much to tip. His scale of average tips: taxi drivers, 12%; barbers, 15%; waiters, 71%; bootblacks, 5? a shine...
After months of planning, King George, Queen Elizabeth and their two daughters were off to South Africa to shine politely on a tottering Empire and prove to the world that Britain's exports were second to nobody...
...shine all the time in Cambridge and the Square may not match Hollywood and Vine, but cinema magnates after a short visit this weekend have their eye on the Yard for a "location" rendition of Helen Howe's "We Happy...
Said King Abdullah: "The Turks and the Arabs are neighbors and brothers who for centuries .. . shaped the history of the East. The day will come when they will unite again and serve the Orient to shine once more." But one chair was conspicuously empty at the feast. Syria's Minister, Ihsan Elsherif, had providentially absented himself. King Abdullah nimbly sidestepped the misunderstanding between Turkey and Arab Syria, which forms the chief bar to Arab-Turk unity. "Turkey and Syria are neighbors," he said, "much more qualified to understand the situation than myself...
...this time it looked as if Howard Hughes might have pulled one monkey-shine too many. A lot of people in & out of T.W.A. were getting fed up. One was CAB Chairman James M. Landis. Others were officials of RFC, who had practically promised early this year to lend T.W.A. $60,000,000. But RFC was smarter than it had been when it sank $19½ million into Hughes's 750-passenger "Hercules." With the "Hercules" some two years be hind schedule, RFC's faith in Hughes was dwindling...