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...amended by substituting 4) the Jones plan for the Underwood plan. Second, it was amended by substituting 2) the Norris plan for the Jones plan. Third, it was amended by substituting 3) the Underwood plan for the Norris plan. Then an attempt was made again to amend the bill toy substituting 4) the Jones plan for the Underwood plan. This last attempt failed. Finally, the bill (composed of 3)-the Underwood plan-was passed by vote...
...Florian." Thus spoke honest burghers in London printshops on Saturday nights. They laid down their pennies, took home boots, sword, armor, cut them from their cards, pasted them on the effigies of contemporary actors. They took pains. Often the scenes constructed in the three-sided rooms of the toy theatres were works of subtle art. Artists afterwards famed sometimes got bread by engraving the penny cards, the tuppeny cards-Blake, Flaxman, Cruikshank. Thousands worked at the making of the theatres; now only one man is left who gets his living so-one B. Pollock of London; he is the last...
...hero with the indispensable automatic. The gun, together with an unemptied waste basket, remains conspicuously placed in the office of a busy business man for twenty four hours; of course nobody disturbs it because on the following day the business man, in the course of melodramatic events, must toy with the suicide idea. For this an automatic is indispensilge; we know, because we have tried it many times...
...however, the wheel has turned again. U. S. capital is becoming interested in the Sonneberg district of Germany with the view to rehabilitating its famous toy industries. The move will not affect this Christmas buying; but, by another Christmas, as Government trade experts point out, our toy markets may be flooded with cheaper toys from abroad...
...deep shadow that lies across the U. S. toy industry...