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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Empress Eugénie hat reappeared cautiously last spring the style world took a guess. It was a saucy fillip to be followed by surprises. U. S. department store buyers, fashion reporters, newsgatherers, sweltering in a Paris hot spell, dodged traffic last week from the Place Vendôme to Etoile where the fashion houses are finding out the surprises. The Empress Eugénie hat was still there, low-crowned, point-brimmed, fitting the head like a piece of orange peel with curled edges. It flourished a provocative ostrich feather. Ostrich farmers on the French Riviera...
...Year ago the cartel was expanded to include Chile, world's great producer of natural nitrate. Rigorous production restrictions were laid down, price agreements made. To Chile the cartel was a timely aid. Its nitrate industry was being reorganized under the sponsorship of the Brothers Guggenheim; a breathing spell was welcome...
...Petersburg, Ind., where water was scarce after a dry spell, Mrs. A. H. Wolven ran a hose to a tub from which her cow might drink. A thirsty rat ran up the hose, plunked into the water. Other thirsty rats heard his gurgling squeaks. Up the hose they ran, one after another. In the morning Mrs. Wolven found 19 drowned rats...
Breathing Spell, Immediately upon landing at Basle, Dr. Luther was ushered into the rich halls where the chiefs of central banks and U. S. executives waited. His step was firm, but his face deeply lined. Just what Beggar Luther said, remained behind the closed doors of the conference room. But at the end of twelve anxious hours, the word was issued...
...going to commit suicide. The doctor's picture now made display material as the epic passed into its third week. Observers marveled at what the great U. S. Press could do with the conjunction of a perfect front-page name, a sexy death mystery and a spell of hot weather...