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...England there is only one producer of raw silk on a practical scale, and she is Lady Millicent Zoe Hart Dyke, nee Bond, wife of Engineer Sir Oliver Hamilton Augustus Hart Dyke, Bart. At present her small industry is enjoying brisk business, for the new Queen and the Duchesses of Gloucester and Kent have patriotically-commanded that their coronation gowns be made of British silk...
...mulberry bushes, tended by partly disabled War veterans. Her worms eat 300 lb. of leaves daily, are kept in trays in the biggest rooms of the castle. The girls who gather the cocoons and reel off the silk fibres are sent abroad for training. Britain's only commercial raw silk producer has four reeling machines which turn out some 20 lb. of raw silk per week...
When Franklin Roosevelt's throat grew swollen and raw and his temperature rose to a portentous degree. Dr. Tobey gave him hypodermic injections of Prontosil, made him swallow tablets of a modification named Prontylin. Under its influence, young Roosevelt rallied at once, thus providing an auspicious introduction for a product about which U. S. doctors and laymen have known little...
...pointed out that Mayflower was not an investment trust in the usual sense. Explained Mr. McConnell: "Its avowed purpose is not merely to purchase and hold securities for income, but rather to undertake hazardous ventures; to pioneer in new enterprises, and to develop new sources of minerals and raw materials...
...base serves various purposes; it keeps the water from soaking into the wood, it fills in scratches and dents, thus giving the ski a smooth running surface, and the surface wax will adhere much better to a base than it will to the raw wood...