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...more than 100,000,000 gallons of "green juice," for this year's crop was uncomfortably bumper. "Hitherto we have never attempted to market the 'green' product," said a spokesman for the French vintners last week, "but that was only because the buyers have always preferred that it be made into wine in France. If the Americans prefer, all our classic vintages can be shipped green, and, as they say, 'developed' in their homes...
...President of the U. S. Protestants prefer a Jew to a Roman Catholic...
...filled his head with every detail of development. Most serious to him is the danger of landing in fog. Said he : "Radio, at the present time, is a bit too delicate for fog work. It is subject to fluctuations and it may go out of condition. ... I personally prefer to work up something much more simple." The "something simple," it transpired, might be a rocket on which Mr. Edison was already experimenting. He has devised a day-or-night rocket to explode at 4,000 ft. and hoped to adjust the explosion to give an incoming pilot an accurate idea...
...think that many members of Congress will prefer a special session of Congress to joining the army of unemployed,'' grunted Insurgent Senator Borah last week. He was being facetious, but he was touching upon the precise reason why Congressmen have refused five times in the past decade to pass the resolution of Senator Norris to abolish "lame duck" sessions. Congressmen are, more tenaciously than almost any other class of professional men, jobholders. That is why those whose states are losing seats fought so bitterly, and may fight again, the already long-delayed Reapportionment of the House...
...Paris last week "incognito and making a great effort to keep his whereabouts secret," correspondents sought out Governor George Leslie Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank at his Paris hotel, asked bluntly, "Have you been conferring with Owen D. Young?" Said Governor Harrison frostily, "I prefer not to say. . . . I am simply talking over monetary affairs. . . . Of course gold is always one of our problems...