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Teamplay Proves Tough Nut...
...Soapmakers are using more & more crude soybean oil because, like palm-nut, olive and coconut oils it can be made into an excellent lather-maker which produces suds even in salty sea water...
Carl Edward Johansson, working in a Swedish arsenal, cracked the accurate-measurement nut in the 1890s. He knew there was nothing so accurate in the hands of a toolmaker as a simple block of steel. Assuming that the average shop needed measurements for every ten-thousandth of an inch from 1/10 of an inch to 12 inches, a complete set of block gauges would number well over 100,000 pieces. But he found that every one of these measurements could be obtained by a combination of only 81 pieces, the smallest being 1/10 of an inch, the largest four inches...
...McMichael mischievously would lead their public to believe. At its present rate of sheet-music sales (150,000 to date), it may well top the nut songs it succeeds: 1936's The Music Goes 'Round and Around (350,000), 1939's Three Little Fishies (250,000). B.M.I.'s first smash, it bids fair to make its writers $5,000 apiece, its publisher...
Fact No. 1. The main fact was simple enough. Rudolf Hess, only two places removed from the leadership of Germany, had quit Germany under his own steam and gone to the enemy country, where he was imprisoned. In all the howling vortex of dope-stories, nut-stories, crackpot theorizing, official and amateur speculation that the Hess flight evoked, only the New York World-Telegram affected to doubt Fact No. 1. The Telegram hired a series of detective storytellers to mastermind the Hess Case. One, Lee Wright of Publishers Simon & Schuster, opined that Hess wasn't Hess...