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...classes become socially and economically minded. "An Ideal Diet cannot yet be defined," observed Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins speaking as a professional biochemist, because "factors still unknown contribute to normal nutrition." Garbaged Farm Lands. To provide more arable land for England, Francis Maurice Gustavus Du-Plat-Taylor, dock and reclamation engineer, urged that London's house refuse and sludge from sewage disposal plants be deposited upon marsh and mud lands. London sludge, which now is hauled out to sea, amounts to three million tons yearly. House refuse reaches 1,500,000 tons yearly. Tooth Crystals. X-ray analysis showed...
Meanwhile last week Gerardo Machado y Morales was traveling from Nassau. Bahama Islands, to Montreal. With guns in belts, he and his friends ate in their cabins. When the ship docked at Hamilton, Bermuda, he waited until the dock was clear, then appeared at the head of the gangway. Bermuda's Chief of Police hastened up, spoke in his ear. Machado & friends went back to their cabins. Asked by newshawks what would be his last wish if he knew he were about to die, he replied : "That Cuba might always be a free and sovereign State." He added...
...Havana dock workers announced that they would not unload cargoes from "certain places, those countries giving hospitality to Machado. ... In this way they will make it impossible for him to take shelter in any place, making life for him as impossible as he made it for so many thousands. . . ." Alarmed were the Associated Potato Shippers of New Brunswick who had expected a fine export business this season with Cuba whose 1933 potato crop is nearly...
Tender captains, chugging out and back to the big ships which anchor off Cherbourg, explained last week that the Municipality has set 30,000 francs ($1.176 at par) as the price of permitting a liner to dock, counts on the demands of tourists for an easy gangplank landing to force the steamship companies to pay this price. The tender captains charge only 6,000 francs ($235) for landing or embarking 200 passengers. Thus far tourists have been so scarce this year that no line calling at Cherbourg has been willing to pay the extra charge for the sake of being...
...Hollywood studios the producers of F. P. 1 were forced to photograph their scenes against real backgrounds. Early scenes, purporting to show the construction of the sea-drome, were taken amidst the teeming activity of one of Germany's largest shipyards For the completed seadrome a floating dock was borrowed, effectively remodeled, towed out into the Baltic. There it did much to substantiate the arguments against real seadromes. In the first storm encountered it snapped its anchor cables. For the flying deck scenes, for which the dock was unsuited, the company chartered the dot-like island of Oie. With...