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...average of 304 days a year. The cost of living is below the U. S. city average (a good twelve-room unfurnished house and garage rent for $1,000 a year, taxes are $32.25, steak is 34� a lb.). Denverites drink bad whiskey and gin, little beer. Water is precious yet Denver wastes it. Says the Water Board: "Once you get hold of a flow of water, if you don't use it you forfeit it to someone who will." Last week, however, citizens were allowed to water their lush, green lawns for only three hours in the evening...
...when German submarines were sinking U. S. oil tankers, oil was precious. One of the jobs of the Engineering Commission of Submarine Defense was to make oil go further. Its chairman, Lindon Wallace Bates, with the backing of the late Cameraman George Eastman, finally stabilized a 50% mixture of coal dust in oil. The U. S. S. Gem tested it successfully. After the War, Inventor Bates learned that two Germans had invented a similar fuel in 1914. He bought up their patents, developed his fuel still further...
...gathering of "representative" Oxford men, it gained notably the support of Old Oxonian Edward of Wales. Lord Grey addressed his appeal to all Oxford men and Oxford women, "scattered all over the habitable world, and who carry through life an affection for Oxford which to them must be a precious possession...
Here was a precious situation for An-thropology?an utterly indigenous, primitive people who had developed language, religion and customs from anciently lost seeds ? which Anthropologist Petrullo with pencil and camera zealously documented. From the pristine Yawalapiti and their neighbors may be learned much about
...quarters of the club will probably be in the Hotel Majestic (7 2nd Street & Central Park West). Thither will be moved paintings, photographs, maps, instruments, weapons, mounted animal heads?trophies from the six Continents, the Seven Seas, the air. Most precious is the Explorers' library valued at $100,000. From the Club's books, atlases and journals an explorer can get full information for a trip to any part of the world...