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...climbed up on the stump of a pine-tree with one of those monster-radishes in one hand and a lump of hard soldiers' bread in the other, and joked, between mouthfuls...
...their victims, others that the chief damage is loss of blood. Arkansas veterinarians and entomologists were researching frantically last week, but expected the gnats to be gone before they could learn much. Meantime they advised farmers to smear their stock with rancid lard and kerosene, with cottonseed oil and pine tar, or with a mixture of soap, water, petroleum and powdered naphthalin. But what the farmers really hoped for were a few good hot days, which drop gnats dead as quickly as they come...
Rudyard Kipling to the contrary, Britain's dominion over palm and pine by no means amounts to a monopoly. Britain's dominion over rubber plants, however, is the most extensive in the world. In the early 1920's rubber-growing Britons sought to control, through the notorious Stevenson plan, the world's rubber market. They managed to stretch rubber prices to $1.23 per lb., but when the restriction scheme collapsed the price did not stop shrinking until it hit 3? per lb. early last year. Chief reason for the plan's failure was not Secretary...
Today, single-handed and in his own right, el gran Mirador controls some 10% of the world's tin output. Many times a millionaire, Simon Patino lives in a gaudy and fantastic palace in Paris. He warms himself at his villa in a forest of pine and mimosa above Nice. His son is married to a Bourbon princess, one of his daughters to a Spanish marquis. In Bolivia the tax on his mines is the country's chief source of revenue. In 1926 Bolivia made him Minister to France, where he bought his own embassy. Patino Mines & Enterprises...
...Sweet Adeline" (1903). Harry Armstrong wrote the music in Somerville, Mass., when he and three other Somerville boys were annoying the townsfolk by singing quartets on the gaslit street corners. In New York some years later Armstrong found a lyricist in Dick Girard who chose Adeline to rhyme with pine. "Sweet Adeline" had its best sales during Prohibition. Harry Armstrong now runs an entertainment booking bureau in Manhattan. Dick Girard clerks in the New York General Post Office...