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...arrive late from another dinner in Pierson College. Mrs. Angell, not quite able to reconcile herself to attending a very formal affair without Hubby, called in her children for a conference on the matter. The young-ones ransacked the toys of their youth to bring forth only a decrepit wool-stuffed policeman-doll. Mrs. Angell smoothed its uniform somewhat but couldn't do anything about the runs in the flat-foot's stockings. Nevertheless she sallied forth in full evening dress with the sergeant in her arms. The butler was visibly astonished but imagined that there...
When William Bishop Warner and Lionel J. Noah became masters of American Woolen Co. in 1930, the company had lost $10,000,000 in three years and stockholders had actually thought of giving up. Dividends on common stock had ceased in 1924. Wool prices had fallen from $1.55 in 1925 to 65? in 1930. A thin-lipped Yankee named Andrew Pierce had done all he could to reorganize the company after a fatal post-War spending and production boom had piled up huge unsalable inventories. The year he resigned the deficit was the third biggest in the company...
Anthrax is a disease of sheep and cattle which humans who work with hides or wool may get through skin abrasions. It produces pustular swellings which may become gangrenous. A rarer form of the disease is pulmonary, from inhaling dried spores in dusty workrooms. Three months ago a young Sackville mill employe died of anthrax. Since then four other Sackvillians have been stricken. All recovered...
CHARLES DICKENS-Stephen Leacock- Doubleday, Doran ($3). Dyed-in-the-wool Dickensians may enjoy reading this new version of an old and favorite subject, but even they will not grant full marks to the Charles Dickens of Stephen Leacock, head of the political economy department at Canada's McGill University and oldtime popular humorist. Almost universally appreciative when he is writing of Dickens' books, Biographer Leacock is also sympathetic when it comes to his hero's private life. But he considers that Dickens never completely acquired good taste, thinks this lack and a kind of nervous egotism...
Persia & Irak. "And the trees that bear wool I clipped." So wrote Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians seven centuries before Christ. His wool-bearing "trees" were the earliest known cotton. For the cotton and for his fabulous gardens at Nineveh he needed water. Dr. James Henry Breasted, famed founder-director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, returning from an airplane visit to his twelve lieutenants and their staffs busy in the Near East, said that Sennacherib brought his water through a 3O-mi. aqueduct. A member of the Irak expedition, led by a friendly native, had found...