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...able proudly to announce that with assets of $40,000,000 it had not lost a cent since 1928 (TIME, Oct. 21). Also proudly, Dr. Master announced last month that the Board has divested itself of 200 shares of du Pont stock because "2% of their stock is in powder...
Previous to my enlistment in the Chemical Warfare Service, I had been a powder maker for the du Pont Powder Co. for three years; three years in which I had learned the value of technical training by watching men who had it promoted over my head because I didn't have it. Strange as it may seem, I bowed to the Board's ukase...
...know that $5,700, to a Princeton Punk, is just Papa's check, with his signature in the lower right hand corner and the $5,700 just above it, but to a mere powder monkey it's a lot to save in two years. If some Punk tries to burn me up with "Hello, Sucker," I'll plum incinerate him with an equally original "Says You." I fail to see where anyone made a sucker...
Died. Frederick Henry Harvey, 41, vice president of the famed Western Harvey railway restaurant chain and dining car service (for the Santa Fe) founded by his late grandfather; at Johnstown, Pa., when the airplane which he was piloting bashed through electric powder lines, burst into flames, burned him & his wife to death...
...society which kept Adria impregnably surrounded. He continued to think of her as sacred, his manicurist as profane. When the manicurist, a determined creature, followed him to Venice, the rest was easy. Though Francis never knew for certain how it happened that Adria took an overdose of sleeping-powder, he felt the responsibility was his. Too late he knew that he had profaned Adria's love by his vulgar idea of what was sacred...