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...coach, like Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac. Furthermore, it offers no chance for photography. All the action takes place in the dugout of the officers of C Company; any scenes taken outside this setting are unnecessary. Even the scenes of trench warfare, which to stage audiences were represented by powder smells and the operation of noise- machines, lose significance through being specifically portrayed...
...command of the Eighth Field Artillery at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Col. Bishop is a West Pointer (1897). During the World War he commanded the 159th Field Artillery Brigade, the Third Field Artillery Brigade. He has lived with guns and caissons and horses and the smell of black powder during his whole military career...
...whey (the watery part of milk left after the curds are removed) or return it to farmers for hog wash. That whey contains most of the milk minerals. To make money from this whey Mr. Kraft some time ago gave Rutgers University funds for research. Rutgers fellows developed a powdered whey which chicken farmers use to keep parasites from their fowls. A year ago Kraft developed Velveeta, a mixture of cheese and whey powder, which can be digested in two hours, while cheese requires four hours for digestion. Whey must have some further commercial value, decided Mr. Kraft...
...cheese. For this reason Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. controls large dairy interests, also sells milk. And for this reason big dairy companies also sell cheese. Yet the first of recent Kraft-Phenix merger rumors concerned not a milk company, but Standard Brands, Inc., which sells yeast, coffee, baking powder. Although this report may have been without foundation, more definite was an announcement that the Reynolds-Hanes interests, which control Kraft-Phenix, and National City Co. had reached an agreement to form a great merger between Kraft-Phenix, Hershey Chocolate Co., and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet (TIME, Nov. 4). Although this cheese...
Died. Lieut. Mons Monssen, U. S. N., retired; in Brooklyn Naval Hospital; following appendectomy. In 1904, as chief gunner's mate on the battleship Missouri, he saved 600 officers and men from destruction by leaping into the powder magazine of a flaming gun turret, shutting the door, fighting the fire with bare hands. President Roosevelt pinned the Medal of Honor on his breast...