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Marble. Limestone, subjected to terrific natural heat and pressure, becomes marble. Marble, cut and polished, is used for monuments, building ornamentation, interior decorations and furnishing Greatest of the latter uses in the U. S. is soda-fountain construction. Leading consumers of marble for this purpose are I. Fischman & Sons of Philadelphia. Through the Consolidated Marble Corp., new subsidiary, I. Fischman & Sons last week made an exclusive contract with the Societie-de-Merbles-Sprimont of Brussels, largest marble producers in the world. Using marble for other purposes also, I. Fischman & Sons now dominate the U. S. marble field...
Explained Emanuel Koveleskie, who represents this veteran union with the American Federation of Labor: "The old-time saloon bartenders still are tending bars, but as soft drink and soda jerkers, so in the interest of accuracy we are changing the name. In New York we still call them bartenders' unions. In Missouri they are beverage dispensers' unions. In such states as Kansas we don't even have any organization any more...
...Mendeleff, periodic system of the elements; Davy, miner's lamp; Perkin, mauve synthetic coal tar dyes; Faraday, electro magnetic induction; Curie, Radium; Priestley, oxygen; Gay-Lussac, law of combining volumes of gases; Dalton, atomic theory; Solvay, soda from ammonia; Ramsay, the Noble gases; Lavoisier, originator of modern chemistry...
...daughters of a neighboring poor-but-proud royalist family. Françoise, unlike Anne, has no bent for politics. Her energy is of the 1929 vintage. "In her arms and legs, movement lay coiled, as in the springs of a watch." When Molinoff smokes his fragrant cigarets, drinks his whiskey & soda, she does the same. When he plays Negro jazz records on a phonograph, she sways all over. She looks at Molinoff "with the eyes of a little girl that wants to be played with." But Molinoff, woman's man that he is, will not play with a virgin...
...bread baked and ready for eating. Housewives require ten hours for bread making; commercial bakers take two hours. Professor Dedrick's 45-minute powder is a vesiculant, exciting the formation of carbon dioxide, as does yeast alone, baking powders and the mixture of hydrochloric acid and baking soda. He derives his powder from wheat grains. Shortly he will offer it to the baking trade...