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Last week a report was circulated in New York that Lloyds was laying 5-to-1 on war somewhere within six months. Massed troops around Austria might mean nothing-but that territory remained the powder box of Europe. More informative than such fearful talk was an article appearing last week in the March FORTUNE on the world's armament industry. In it were detailed the companies which make war possible and the men who sell the products of those companies internationally. Prime FORTUNE facts...
...described as being a .22 calibre rifle butt, to which is attached a one-inch tube to serve as the barrel. The elevating and traversing mechanisms are worked by geared hand wheels, and have a movable field of 45 degrees each. The blank cartridges are black powder, and the gun is muzzle loading...
...cream-colored canvas. But Rivera's mural, like all true fresco, had been painted into a coat of plaster. The workmen tried to get it off in big chunks, save as much as they could. But they claimed later that once broken, the great fresco crumbled into powder which was wheeled out of the lobby to oblivion. Speedily the workmen slapped a fresh coat of plaster on the scarified wall. Next morning a faint smell of new plaster was the lobby's only clue to the night's deed...
...curls out of her hair, because she looked "too much like a Hula-Hula girl." It is interesting to know that before every meal each of the waitresses in the Union must pass in review and execute an about-face in front of Miss Murray. Any traces of powder, rouge or lipstick call for serious rebuke. Little wonder that many of the waitresses resort to the Tent and Normandie ballrooms for relief. Well, despite our old-fashioned regulations, perhaps the situation down at Yale is worse. There no waitresses under 25 years of age are hired...
...Hercules Powder...