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...position of the British Raj in the Indian civil-disobedience campaign was summed up by a man in New Delhi: "You Americans think that we are sitting on top of a powder keg. We're not. We're sitting on an anthill. We may get ants in our pants, but we'll ride it out." Committed to smashing the power of the Indian National Congress party, the Raj cracked down harder than before...
...offerings" (i.e., carefully prepared sales) to dispose of large blocks. So far most of these specials have gone over big. Lured by extra-fat commissions, exchange members sold 28,700 shares of General Electric in four minutes; last week they sold 10,000 National Distillers and 5,000 Hercules Powder in less than one minute each...
Moreover, modern bread is baked with plenty of milk or milk powder. This supplies calcium (for the bones and teeth) and the vitamin called riboflavin, which is also a powerful disease preventive. Only when made with the whole meal and milk can bread be called adequate...
...plastic to replace rubber in raincoats, golf balls, baby pants, footwear, gloves, hospital sheeting, garden-hose, electrical insulation and even gas masks was announced by Hercules Powder Co. last week. Such uses formerly consumed 60,000 tons of rubber a year. The new plastic is a soft form of ethyl cellulose, made of cotton linters or wood pulp and grain alcohol. It is as pliable, flexible, nonporous and durable as rubber, but is not so elastic or resilient, and tears more easily. Hence it is not good for tires or tubes. But it is flameproof and does not lose...
...glamour girls OPA addressed a communiqué: "Such long-established practices as sending up clouds of powder during camouflage operations, scooping up huge handfuls of cold cream, spraying a cloud of perfume to walk through must go." There won't be enough cosmetics to go around unless make-up is applied with a sparing hand...