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Thus every hour on many a U. S. radio station the American Tobacco Co. spreads the suggestion of aromatic tobacco auction rooms. Last week Thurman Wesley Arnold's pugnacious Anti-Trust Division charged that in the auction rooms it smelled, besides tobacco, monopoly. The marketing systems for leaf tobacco, said the Arnold indictment, "have been deliberately designed to enable [the companies] to dominate and dictate terms to growers. . . ." It charged six U. S., two British tobacco companies and their executives with criminal guilt...
...Spokane, at an auction, a woman bought a sealed packing case for $3, carted it home, opened it, found three skeletons in a good state of preservation...
...nickel-in-the-slot sort of way; but Uncle Tom's Cabin was not. In his 87 years in the theatre, Uncle Tom has taken some awful beatings-from stagefolk as well as from Simon Legree-but never a worse one than at Waukegan, where there was no auction block, no whipping post, no bloodhounds, no Eliza crossing the ice. Topsy and Little Eva remained-but precious little...
Nine years ago in Bradford, Pa., an engineer named C. G. ("Center of Gravity") Taylor gave up the corporate ghost trying to manufacture and sell a light, cheap airplane, the Taylor Cub. On the auction block went his two-year-old Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corp. For $522.50 a native Bradford boy, husky, genial William Thomas Piper, ex-oilman, engineer and Harvard hammer thrower, whose flying experience consisted of one short ride, bought the defunct firm. With an additional $2,877.50 he formed Taylor Aircraft Co., took Taylor in as partner...
...Fine Arts Theatre has on exhibit in its outer lobby some twenty paintings done by Laura Mackay, a women whose talent and technical ability cannot be disputed. Her land and sea-scapes are reminiscent of paintings executed by certain she fall into the dangerous rut of auction room impressionism, a frailty common among many artists who are painting today. Her piece entitled "Pines And Snow," contains a definite Corot-ish tendency; and Miss Mackay has, perhaps unconsciously, adapted Corot's facility for painting early morning landscapes in her won subject matter with success...