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...Border, bitter battlegrounds of national elections, got its first smell of this year's political powder last week. Congressional primaries were held in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri. Wiseacres tried to foretell the number of Smith and Hoover votes the three states contain by comparing, this way and that, the democratic and republican votes cast. But only one thing of immediate significance occurred. That was in Tennessee, where Finis James Garrett, for 23 years a member of the House, and since 1923 the House's boss Democrat, tried to get himself nominated for the seat in the Senate which...
...against $6,750,384. Canada Dry ("Champagne of Ginger Ales"): $1,449,191 as against $1,273,528. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Charles M. Schwab, Eugene G. Grace): $7,914,046 as against $10,666,718. E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. (smokeless powder, explosives, rayon, dyestuffs, paint, varnish, alcohol, pyralin, cinema film, ammonia, nitric acid and 23% of General Motors common stock) : $30,125,125 as against $21,436,642. Telautograph Corp. (point to point handwriting device): $144,103 as against $124,302. John R. Thompson Co. (120 restaurants) : $667,656 as against $769,024. Barker Bros. Corp. (furniture...
Alluringly foreign are the names of precious unguents and their makers. But deep hidden under the black-bakelite boudoir jars of Terri's "Exquisite Face Powder" one may find the name of Terence Ryan, its maker. And famed Madame Helena Rubinstein is also called Mrs. Edward Titus. Laden with scents and sounds of the Orient, her most esoteric triumphs reach Manhattan from no more distant point than her factory on Long Island...
...Killing. Powder-Horn Pete (Wallace Beery) and Dead-Eye Dan (Raymond Hatton) of the Ozark Mountains are hired by the Hicks family to kill all the Beagles. Thinking that the Beagles are four-legged animals, Pete and Dan slap thighs in joyful anticipation of easy slaughter. But the Beagles are a family of two-legged humans. The problem is finally solved without bloodshed when one little Beagle girl (Mary Brian) marries a Hicks boy. Here & there, a laugh ensues. . . . Paramount advertises the film as the last of the Beery-Hatton comedies...
...machine, then distributed to three furnaces, but the latest improvement provides each furnace with its own pulverizer and does away altogether with the problem of distribution. The new pulverizer is attached to the door of any furnace. Like a large coffee mill, it grinds the coal until talcum powder would look coarse in comparison; sprays it into the greedy furnace where it becomes incandescent almost immediately...