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Before and after her luncheon at the White House, the Cosmetics Queen visited U. S. cosmetics factories with a view to buying some $100,000 worth of factory equipment. The traveling belts on which the jars of powder and perfume rode from worker to worker, floor to floor, particularly fascinated her. "Our women," she said, "can afford to pay as much for cosmetics as American women. Even our men are shaving more regularly and taking up the use of toilet water...
Most gratifying progress made so far has been in the matter of fuel. Since a rocket is like an upward moving gun firing continuously at the ground, it was natural for the first experimenters to use gunpowder. But powder burned unevenly and it was extremely dangerous. The new technique is to use liquid oxygen and a liquid fuel such as gasoline or alcohol, which do not mix until the rocket is ready to go off. Such a mixture develops energies ten times greater than...
Standard Brands made $12,746,000 in 1935 against a $13,888,000 profit in 1934. Built around Fleischmann yeast, Royal baking powder and Chase & Sanborn coffee, Standard Brands made some $87,750,000 in its six full years of business life. But the "Standard" brands have, in effect, standard prices which both competition and custom make difficult to raise. Consequently Recovery, with higher costs, has brought lower profit margins and a decreased profit. The common closed last week at $17.62, about 18 times 1935 earnings of 97? a share...
...weather forecast for today is increasing cloudiness, followed by snow in the late afternoon and night, with slowly rising temperatures in southern New England. This snow should give a good powder surface so that skiers would not have to navigate on the hard crust caused by the thaw...
...Scotch warrior set upon destroying the clan of McLaglen instead of the invading English, is blown up by a keg of powder after having dallied with a shepherdess and field ignominiously from the scions of the hated clan. For this he is condemned by his father, the head of the clan of Glouer, to wander about the ancestral castle until he, Murdoch Glouer the ghost, can tweek the beak of a McLagen and force him to admit that any fifty of his clan can be thrashed with ease by a lone Glouer...