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Several of our good friends have called our attention to TIME of Nov. 28, "On Trains, and made the suggestion that we should add to your paragraph that the "North Coast Limited," Chicago-Seattle flyer, on the Northern Pacific, had a women's lounge and smoking compartment with long sofa and dressing tables, bath, manicure, maid, etc., added to its new equipment in March...
...first paragraph under the inexcusable headline seemed a clear case of typographical transposition. It said...
...next paragraph sprang the Times' joke: "President Coolidge today asked Congress for authority to invite . . . the International Congress of Entomologists...
...Extinct Soup"; "Carme-leis: Swoons in Cream"; "Silde-boller: Hamburger with Fins." Eyes which have been caught but perhaps frightened by pilaf, carme-leis and sildeboller are then directed to a consoling, italicized reassurance: The actual instructions for preparing each dish "... are so constructed that one may read each paragraph, then do as directed, then read the next paragraph, and so on." Even more practical, is "an index in which the recipes are arranged according to their chief ingredients, so that one can see . . . what dishes one can make from what one has on hand." Thus the possessor...
...buttress to the banking strength of the nation is the McFadden act, whose principal paragraph is the permission granted to national banks to maintain branches. Last week Comptroller of the Currency J. W. Mclntosh announced that national bank resources equalled $27,213,824,000-the largest amount reported on record. This was due, said Mr. Mclntosh, to the McFadden...