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...rooms. Because of the building material, no windows are necessary, and in solving the problem of the windowless structure, Owens-Illinois claimed that it had taken a long step forward in making air-conditioning practical. The glass house also contains another important Owens-Illinois product: spun glass, or glass wool, woven into thick mats and used as insulator of heat and sound. It is likely to be a long time before many people live in glass houses, but glass insulation is a much more immediate rabbit in the Owens-Illinois...
...Vatican City this week on the feast day of St. Agnes, two chaste white lambs will be brought to the Holy Father from the Church of St. Agnes in the Via Nomentana in Rome. Given his blessing, the gentle animals will be coddled until Easter when their wool is shorn, woven into the pallia which the Pope gives to patriarchs, primates and archbishops as a symbol of their office...
...trying always to appraise them judiciously, is underrated for lack of appreciation of what the youth conceives to be the basic purpose of writing. The question in its last analysis, is one's choice between the shown shoddy road of ultra extreme but passing fashion and the genuine all-wool garment of conservative...
...confess I was amazed to learn that overseas visitors to Great Britain spent ?25,000,000 in 1934." declared H. R. H. "This figure is the same as the figure for the sale of wool in this country and only ?3,000,000 behind the revenue from the sale of coal...
When Farleyism, Tugwellism, Huey-Longism, Radicalism, and plain lying Insincerity are added to the list of Rooseveltian activities, it is hard to understand how the New Deal can still keep the wool over the eyes of our still esteemed contemporary...