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...gasoline costs 35? to 40? a gallon, said Gustav Egloff of Chicago, too high for all but a few districts in the U. S., but not too high for countries a long distance from gasoline sources. Other breakdown products of cottonseed oil include Diesel engine oil, coke, gases, water. Certain of the gases can be converted into alcohol, anti-freeze materials. Museums. No community of more than 50,000 in the U. S., Canada or Great Britain lacks a museum of some kind. The U. S. has about 1400 museums of which 300 are devoted to Science and Industry...
...nearby. No one heard it except Ivar Kreuger, the "Swedish Match King," the self-made colossus of Scandinavian finance. Matchman Kreuger was putting a bullet into his heart for business reasons (see p. 45) and for human reasons. His nerves were drawn so taut (he had suffered a nervous breakdown recently in New York) that to release the strain was welcome, sweet. His physician had warned him the day before that his heart would not stand much more. "M. Kreuger is sleeping," said the concierge of the apartment about 1:30 p.m. when Vice President Krister Littorin of Swedish Match...
...would say that about 80 per cent of the inefficiency and so called stupidity of undergraduates is caused by fears, confusions, and complexes which can readily be cleared up by simple psychology. The unusually large number of sensitive people, cases of nerrous breakdown, and even many cases of apparent physical disorder are due to the fact that our culture is a culture of suppression, especially in New England. "Mourning Becomes Electra" and "Ethan Frome" are true pictures of the abnormality and irritation in personalities caused by suppression...
...MacDougall had a breakdown, went to Florence for a rest. When she returned she enlarged her restaurant, sold not only Italian, Spanish and English pottery and tea sets, but decorated the place to look like an Italian garden. Prospering, she added two other spots of Italian atmosphere, a Normandy Inn, a Spanish patio in other parts of Manhattan, as well as a marionette store at the opening of which a sign announced: "Alice Foote MacDougall and Tony Sarg have a surprise...
...Film productions when his leave of absence ends in about a month. Mr. Sheehan's plans had been a matter of conjecture. Longtime associate (since 1914) of William Fox, he sided with the company's bankers when Mr. Fox was ousted, was said to have suffered a sudden breakdown late last year. Last week's news followed Fox President Edward Richmond Tinker's first official Hollywood inspection...