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...Reforestation is his hobby. He conducts a nursery on a 75-acre farm unconnected with the Roycrofters. Except for the printing and binding shops Roycrofters are not so multitalented as they once were. The Turkish Corner passed on with Queen Victoria; modern decorations do not include many brass or bronze ornaments. But the presses, turning out mostly reprints of the Founder's works, have withstood a fair test of time. Best seller: A Message to Garcia. This "literary trifle," as he called it, Hubbard wrote one night after dinner when Bert II had remarked that Rowan was the real...
...ship down upon that boiling sea but he would never take it off again. He scribbled a note on a message blank, passed it through the little window to ''Sparks's" compartment just abaft the control cabin, saw Sparks (radio operator) begin to pound brass . . . "NHC [the Naval base at Cristobal]-NHC-sighted ten men in lifeboat at 10:22 North 76:52 West-ORMSBEE." With that message and another to Miami on their way, Pilot Ormsbee turned northeast and kited for Barranquilla, hating to think of the eleven pairs of dejected eyes that focussed upon...
Bohn Aluminum & Brass showed $913,000 for the first three quarters against $692,000. But the September quarter resulted in a $12,000 loss...
...National Prohibition Reform. Little country boys of the 4-H Club were housed with the rabbits and poultry in the nearby "Highlands," a onetime funpark. Their eyes popped open a little wider at the exhibit of Milwaukee's ever-hopeful Pabst Corp.: an oldtime saloon, complete with brass rail, sawdust, shiny glassware...
...found the current issue bound within a cover of real aluminum, cold rolled to 2/1.000 in. thickness. The publishers stated that other magazines had appeared with metal foil applied to paper, but never before with a cover of rolled metal. Future issues may be bound in lead, copper, nickel, brass, steel, zinc, molybdenum if manufacturers can be induced to follow the example of Aluminum Co. of America and donate the metal...