Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgian concerns, Snia Viscosa, which always has been internationally minded, is now intent on moving into the U. S., plans to begin by sending its fibres to the U. S., eventually will build U. S. factories. U. S. representatives are the big New York firm of Meyer & Marks Yarn Co. Inc., whose president, Jack W. Block, likes to assert that lanital will do to the wool business what rayon had done to the silk. U. S. woolmen, absorbed with more immediate troubles (see p. 75) last week produced no retort to this other than the findings year and half...
...have never experienced any difficulty in breeding the heifer when one of the twins is a male. The veterinary who attended the mother for a mild attack of milk fever says the contention, that heifer calves who have a male twin will prove to be sterile, is just a yarn without foundation...
Prompt to support its members, the National Maritime Union gave the crew's story, charged that Captain Gainard had spun a yarn to the .Washington Post's staff correspondent, Edward T. Folliard, who had a frontpage, five-column scoop on the Algic's, horrific trip. Alleging that Correspondent Folliard was inspired by the Maritime Commission, the N. M. U. statement said: "The crew, organized 100% in the N. M. U. conducted itself in the disciplined and orderly fashion that has made the N. M. U. the choice of the overwhelming proportion of the men who go down...
...seditious hell-raising, Texas looked like just the sort of a place for another rebellion to cut loose. Against this hot-blooded, nearly forgotten background, Texas-born U. S. Marine Major John W. Thomason Jr. (Fix Bayonets!, Jeb Stuart), grandson of Longstreet's Chief of Staff, spins the yarn of Gone to Texas, a pleasant, fast-moving romance about an unpleasant, fast-moving period of U. S. history. Readers will like Author Thomason's numerous pen & ink illustrations; those who liked Gone With The Wind should like the story as well...
...Wild Mare, The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line). In Salute to Yesterday, his first novel in six years, Author Fowler legend for legend backs his own career well into the shade. A frankly sentimental salute to the brave past, evolving around the doings of a Denver die-hard pioneer, the yarn is calculated to send readers into gales of merriment and reduce them to beery tears. Cinema producers were reported in friendly negotiations with Author Fowler, who is holding...