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Venture's End. Two years ago Abram Edward Fitkin, a confident, testy builder and vendor of public utility systems, sold control of Pacific Public Service Co. to Standard Oil Co. of California. The purchase put Standard into several new fields. Through subsidiaries P. P. S. operates the largest bottled spring and distilled water business in the world and 20% of its revenue comes from this source. It also sup plies electric light, power and natural gas to 80 California communities in two areas. Most important of these areas is the industrial region in Contra Costa County (along the northeast...
...Chargedwith uttering exclamations of joy when he heard of the assassination of President Paul Doumer, one Comrade Hautefeuille, a Communist street vendor, was sentenced in Paris last week to one year's imprisonment...
...this one, second product of Paramount's Elstree studio to be released in the U. S., suffers from poor photography and sound recording. Typical shot: Margot (Gertrude Lawrence) and Willie (Owen Nares) squabbling in an ornate night-club while a Negro orchestra in shirt-sleeves plays The Peanut Vendor amid a cloud of toy balloons...
...Peter Arno's (Curtis Arnoux Peters) earlier drawings shows an upright U. S. tourist being accosted in Paris by a smirking obscene-postcard-vendor; the caption is "Feelthy pictures?" No fly-by-night hawker of crude pornography, sexy Artist Arno accosts his public in broad daylight, through the pages of the New Yorker. Many an old-fashioned person would not understand Arno's allusions but would consider them "feelthy" if he did. One prominent English bookseller was so shocked by the English edition of Peter Arno drawings (Peter Arno's Parade) that he refused to sell the book. But Peter...
...James Cash Penney, chainstore tycoon, paid $8.25 per lb. for 920-lb. World's Grand Champion Lucky Strike. World's Champion beef commands fancy prices when served in hotels or dining cars, brings its vendor publicity...