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...outrageously expensive. Per capita income is only $2,100-about $600 less than on the mainland. Yet, since most staples must be imported, prices average 25% over those Stateside. Electric bills average $45 monthly, eggs cost 99? a dozen, soft drinks average 75? for a large bottle-making the soda as costly as the Scotch. Housing is astronomically high: a fair-sized lot with a modest home can run as high as $75,000. Bad roads are made even more hazardous for tourists by the custom of driving on the left. Water is so scarce that some areas are without...
...imports from Spain, whose 2,400-year-old Almaden mine, the world's richest, was first worked by invading Phoenicians. Both U.S. and world demand are growing faster than production, partly because of mercury's increasing use as a catalyst in the making of chlorine and caustic soda for the expanding chemical, paper and plastics industries. A corrosive poison in some forms (mercury bichloride), a therapeutic salve in others (mercury ammonium chloride), fickle mercury also goes in hefty quantities into such disparate products as dental fillings and dry-cell batteries, antibarnacle paint and electrical control apparatus. Hatmakers, however...
...Smith and the Prince of Wales. (If in fact she had any famous lovers, nobody ever discovered who they were.) When Billy Sunday preached against her sensuous dance of the seven veils in Salome, she went to see him and quickly won his friendship over an ice cream soda. Andrew Carnegie pledged his admiration but allowed that he would not go to hear her in Louise because he did not believe in free love; Faust was more his speed, he said...
Pennsylvania, on the other hand, is a bottle of soda that was great when it was fresh (they won the League crown last year) but has lost its zip. The Quakers lost five games in a row until they stomped on already-dead Brown last Saturday, 84-60. The night before, they played their worst game of the year in dropping their Ivy League opener to Yale...
...Girl on Main Street. Glackens was the gentlest of these American impressionists. "Psychologically," Barnes said later, "Glackens is more akin to Renoir than any painter of our age." The painter's world was not the cafes of Paris but the more innocent one of the soda fountains of the U.S. He avoided the hurdy-gurdy of boxing matches, bathing beaches and laundry slung from slum fire stairs. Yet it is Glackens' reportorial honesty that lends to his lush vision of realism of America on the eve of world involvement...