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...experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters inside to soften...
...pens scratched. In the name of His Majesty King George V, in the name of His Majesty King Feisal I of Iraq a treaty was signed and sealed with red wax splotches. By its terms the British mandate over Iraq will automatically expire when this little Arab State is accorded its scheduled admission into the League of Nations...
...magnificent as only Eucharistic Congresses can be? French soldiers, Zouave bands shrilling and drumming native marches, cardinals, archbishops, bishops (100), priests (4,000), natives in burnouses, 5,000 little singing children in white (many of them recent converts from Mohammedanism), Orientals, Europeans, 400 altars, 200 tons of wax candles, the Papal colors white and yellow everywhere, visits to the plaques and monuments of some 30 martyrs, the Papal Bull opening the Congress read in Latin and French then broadcast in Italian into radio microphones, Papal Legate Cardinal Lepicier speaking formally in Latin, informally in French, English, German, Italian, Spanish...
...Vick Chemical Co., one of the U. S. Big Eight. And in prospect is his purchase, through American Home Products Corp. (a third one of the Eight and one in which Mr. Liggett controls some capital stock), of its trademarked preparations of magnesia, digestants, cosmetics, hair tonics, floor wax, varnish remover, patent medicines, toothpaste (including Kolynos). With so many products and so many stores, Drug, Inc. is becoming what Mr. Liggett would privately like to say but publicly disclaims: practically the last as well as definitely the biggest word in U. S. cosmetics and drugs. Some one of his goods...
...visited the U. S. Born in Madrid in 1891, he still lives there, is one of the sights of the Pombo Café. He carries seven fountain pens filled with red ink. His apartment contains : a street lamp, acquired legally from Madrid's Consolidated Gas Co., a beautiful wax mannequin en deshabille, a life-size skeleton, a gibbet from which hangs the King of Bulgaria. Famed orator, he once made a speech from a trapeze (at the Circo Madrileño), from an elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo Frank: "His true fellow...