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Appearing before the House Public Lands Committee, she sponsored her bill to create Everglades National Park at the southwest tip of Florida. Called as a witness was a man who has spent much time in the 2,000-sq.-mi. area, famed Gynecologist-Naturalist Howard Atwood Kelly of Baltimore. Dr. Kelly told the committee about the grandeur of the vast mangrove swamp with its rare white ibis and roseate spoonbills. He impressed upon his listeners that the district harbored the only tropical bird rookery in the U. S. Then, lest the committee grow bored, he released a slithering grey & yellow...
...before breakfast I take you, like a dear pill." The New York Times editorialized: ". . . A baking company in Philadelphia makes its pies square. . . . There will still be old fashioned pie-eaters to object that the new model gives a much greater proportion of crust to filling (see Euclid on area of circles). . . ." To this Earnest Elmo Calkins, famed advertising man and author, replied in a letter: "Square pies are not new. . . . My mother always baked her pies in square tins, or rather oblong rectangles. There were eight mouths in the family, and the standard circular pie cut into pieces...
Greatest of snuff sales-areas is the South, consumer of 60% of the total production. For this reason, President Martin J. Condon of American Snuff told his stockholders last May that much depended on general business in the South. Negroes are the largest buyers, but many a white man in the South uses snuff. New England is another leading snuff area. Many factories forbid employes to smoke; they turn to snuff. New England sales have increased as the snuff habit has extended to younger consumers...
...well as to make the facilities available to qualified investigators, friendly and continuing relations with universities are obviously essential. Equally essential will be a constant endeavor to encourage the coordination of effort between various scientific institutions of this and other countries, that is especially needed in Oceanography, where the area to be covered is so vast and where so many fields of science intertwine...
...Fink has been rising on the steel horizon. He is 45, went to no college. After working in various steel companies, he was assigned the Detroit territory as a sheet salesman for West Penn Steel Co., was later made general sales manager. He suggested a mill in the Detroit area, could not sell the idea to his company. Big Detroiters backed him after he got enough contracts from automobile makers to keep the proposed company busy. This was, of course, Michigan Steel. Last year when he formed Great Lakes Steel he sold $20,000,000 worth of stock to friends...