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...reflector, third largest in the world. The reflector required more than five years to make. Until it was finished the Perkins astronomers got along as best they could with a small reflector loaned by Harvard University. Last week, after being polished for two years, the large mirror was ready to be installed. Director Harlan True Stetson, onetime Harvard astronomer, watched the installation, summed up in his mind two problems he wants to solve with it: the causes of solar storms, which have a great effect upon terrestrial weather and radio reception; the cosmic clouds which he thinks may surround...
Happiness to Loft. Potent units in a feeble industry are Happiness Candy Stores, Inc. controlling the Mirror Candy Stores, and the stormy Loft, Inc. Last week a merger of these three companies was announced. The combined company will have 175 stores, $20,000,000 in assets, $18,000,000 a year in sales...
Selling the Happiness and Mirror control was United Cigar Stores Co. of America which is likewise profitless and has found this experiment in distribution a burden...
...years, nose-wiping Mr. Takahashi sprang from bed, dressed hastily in a rusty black European suit. With a few deft snips of a pair of shears he transformed the morning paper into a pile of paper handkerchiefs which he stuffed into one pocket, also pocketing a large hand mirror. Round his neck he hung a placard of a Japanese schoolboy with running nose. In brilliant ideographs down the side ran the legend: THIS PICTURE SHOULD NOT BE A SIGNBOARD FOR JAPAN. BLOW YOUR NOSE. OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE LAUGHED AT BY FOREIGNERS. Humbly Reporter Okuyama followed the nose crusader...
...nearby park they stalked a group of wet-nosed children at play. Advancing cautiously from the rear Mr. Takahashi suddenly held his mirror before the chief sniveller's startled face. The boy turned, discovered Crusader Takahashi smiling benignly over his tabard, holding out a paper handkerchief. Hypnotized, the sniveller accepted it, trumpeted dutifully...