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...contrivance intended to calibrate facial contours minutely. Giant rollers ground grease paint to remove the tiniest speck of granular imperfections. From "the largest powder bin in the world" the powder was meticulously sifted through silk gauze by means of an electrical shimmy appliance. Guests beheld, in glass cases, the raw materials of cosmetics, labeled in spurious Latin. They browsed in the Max Factor Research Library in which there are not only bound volumes of the American Journal of Dermatology and Syphilology but also old copies of National Geographic and Pearson's Magazine...
...denied by a vote of 13 to 7. James P. Baxter, assistant professor of History, spoke briefly at the beginning, pointing out the main lines the debate should follow. Summarizing the affirmative argument, he said that inasmuch as the United States is the chief producer of most of the raw materials, neutrality, would be extremely hard to keep...
...Always they run from one class to another, always they hurry. How am I to sell my goods," he pointed to an imposing array of raw carrots, lettuce, bananas, oranges, and apples, "If they all the time rush...
...reduction for meat, duty free oranges during four months (January through April), half off for grapefruit, one-eighth to one-quarter off the automobile tariff, similar cuts on electric refrigerators, washing machines, radios and abolition of the duty on magazines.* Furthermore Canada promised to keep U. S. raw cotton on her free list. Duty free likewise will be soya beans, bristles, eggplant, artichokes, horseradish and okra, hop poles and railway ties, tourist literature, zinc dust, Mexican saddle trees. Duties will be lower on a multitude of off-season vegetables, on regalia and badges, on albumenized paper, peaviners, wire (single...
...ruling National Revolutionary Party were already eagerly discussing a temporary President while Cardenas took a long rest somewhere out of Mexico. Boning up on Malta fever. Cardenas' enemies found that it is properly called undulant fever, and that its germ, the Micrococcus melitensis, can be got from drinking raw milk or even from patting diseased cattle. Chances against Cardenas dying of it were 50-to-1 but he might be sick with it for from four months to two years, and there was nothing much to be done about it. except cold packs and intravenous injections...