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...believes himself to have committed while sleepwalking, are above the average for double-bill comedy. Typical shot: Tessie Beatty, who believed she was on her way to Niagara Falls ("where Nature's majestic waters play a constant symphony"), reacting to the discovery that she is in a nut house...
...flood waters struck hot boilers, explosions and fires flared through the city. An exploding tank car in the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad yards burned three business houses, two homes, a municipal garage. A nut & bolt plant, two steel plants, an oil works blazed away while firemen sloshed and fumbled. In a suburban house some 30 refugees were rocked, showered with bricks, singed when their shelter exploded and caught fire...
...costs, the railroads are still about $1,000,000,000 under prosperity levels. And bonds clamor for interest in even the worst of times. The fixed charges, mostly bond interest, of U. S. railroads are still in the neighborhood of $700,000,000 a year. This is the hardest nut for railroaders to crack...
...Luther Burbank died in 1926. In 1930 President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent No. 19, for a coral-colored dahlia, was granted to Harold LeClair Ickes before...
With cakes, nut-bread sandwiches and pots of tea, the ladies of the Society of American Etchers opened the organization's 20th annual exhibition at Manhattan's National Arts Club last week. Licking their buttery fingers, critics inspected 246 prints by practically all the best known etchers in the U. S., found prices ($4 to $36 a print) reasonable, technical excellence uniformly high and subject matter more than a little dull, despite the presence of a few startling prints by Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus, Harry Sternberg. Quite lacking in false modesty is the society's president, John...