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...Depression. A large part of the profits have been ploughed back, and a 50% stock dividend was paid in 1934. That year Iron Fireman introduced a model which put coal on nearly an even footing with the automatic appeal of oil or gas, since the coal was conveyed from bin to furnace without the intervention of a shovel. Aside from convenience, the strongest selling point for mechanical stokers is economy. More heat is obtained from less coal. Stokers have offered hope to the coal industry, since they mean real competition for the oil burner...
...basement of Peabody Museum is located a "dust bin", whose area is half that of the ordinary House study room and whose depth is approximately three feet. In this sand-filled bin are buried skeleton surrounded by appropriate objects (pieces of pottery, etc.) Students in Anthropology 15, Field Methods in Anthropology, go digging for the hidden objects to gain practice in field work. The course is omitted this year...
Several legends center about the dust bin. Several years ago students were somewhat amazed to find two small gin bottles near the surface. Further excavation revealed a curiously posed woman's skeleton ensconced in the midst of larger empty gin bottles...
...director of an international school of Mexican archeology, has recently received than institute's entire collection. Attired in a white duster he is now actively engaged in Peabody sorting the shipment. None of the materials is to be exhibited but will be put aside for use in the dust bin...
...contraption which, since Factor's speciality is "color harmony guidance," was supposed to show the slightest color deviation in the subject. There was a contrivance intended to calibrate facial contours minutely. Giant rollers ground grease paint to remove the tiniest speck of granular imperfections. From "the largest powder bin in the world" the powder was meticulously sifted through silk gauze by means of an electrical shimmy appliance. Guests beheld, in glass cases, the raw materials of cosmetics, labeled in spurious Latin. They browsed in the Max Factor Research Library in which there are not only bound volumes...