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...guests will be the three leading actresses in "The Little Racketeer," Queenie Smith, Grace Hayes, and Cherrie Dale, Continuous music will be furnished by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, will be spelled by Roy Lamson's Harvardians, while a complete floor show will be staged by Coconut Grove actors...
...began to complain that duty-free Filipino cane sugar was depressing their industry. Louisiana cane-growers felt the same way. Concerns with $800,000,000 invested in Cuban sugar production lined up with them against the Philippines. From the North-west came the cry of dairymen that Filipino coconut oil was competing unfairly with their farm products. From the South cottonseed oil men joined the chorus of complaint. This outcry against the Philippines as an agricultural competitor was centred on Congress. There the representatives of the different groups coalesced, formed a sizeable bloc in favor of casting the Philippines loose...
...Coconuts, another great Ceylon industry in the doldrums-chief reason seems to be slaughter of whales. One correspondent in Daily News hysterically asks if anybody knows how long the whale supply of the world will hold out under present slaughter rate-if supply seems able to continue indefinitely will not someone please page immediately the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and see if whaling cannot be stopped or impeded? However Ceylon's only hope, coconutwise, seems to be for the civilized world to decide that they prefer, much prefer vegetable fat such as coconut as the base...
Nourishing Fat. The presence of fat compensates for a vitamin lack in the diet. Dr. Herbert McLean Evans and Dr. Samuel Lepkovsky of the University of California told Academicians that they had kept rats alive for months without vitamin B (necessary to prevent beriberi) by feeding them coconut oil, lard and cottonseed oil. Coconut oil was most effective, cottonseed oil the least...
...Coconut Grove, near Miami, its home anchorage, lay with sails furled, the 29-foot sloop of Author Kirk Munroe, of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, on a quiet Florida night last week. Then furtively came a thief to up anchor and sail away ghostlike to the south. In hot pursuit the next morning went Author Munroe, borne on the wings of a seaplane. Munroe's pilot dropped alongside of the sloop and the pursuer leapt aboard. At the point of a gun he forced the thief to come about, then he bound him and put out for the Coconut...