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...Raw? Salads! After being received in Rome by Il Duce, Premier Lyons, who in Paris had made no effort to meet Premier Laval or any other French statesman, cried, "I want to pay homage to Mussolini. . . . He has done immense good." At the Vatican devout Joseph Aloysius and Enid Lyons, who in Scotland had been jeered by a handful of irrepressibles as "Papists!" knelt before the Supreme Pontiff. His Holiness imparted the Apostolic Benediction and observed, "We still preserve a most pleasant recollection of the great triumph of the Church represented in the Eucharistic Congress at Sydney, Australia" (TIME, Sept...
...Alaska, 195 mi. up the winding Copper River Valley, is Kennecott, a raw mining town sprawled on the edge of what was once the richest copper mine in North America. Alexander Baranof, first Governor of Russian America, bought copper from the Kennecott district Indians in the 18th Century to cast a bell. A hundred years later two grizzled sourdoughs stumbled upon what looked like grass on the mountainside at Kennecott, found pure copper ore. A taciturn young engineer named Stephen Birch bought their claims. With backing from Daniel Guggenheim, a railroad was pushed up the Copper River Valley...
...your issue of May 13, p. 30, Professor Thorndike considers the probability of someone's eating an earthworm in consideration of $100 cash in hand. It might interest him to hear that a man once did eat an earthworm, fresh, fat and raw, for 25? cash, then & there paid by his farmer employer. I did not see it, but I knew both parties and my informant was the employer's son. This throws into my mind some doubt of the value of Professor Thorndike's statistics...
...wishing some white nation to control Abyssinia. For four years Japan has been quietly penetrating the country. Japanese farmers are growing Abyssinian cotton with increasing success, they have grabbed her textile market from under Britain's nose, they are becoming more and more free of dependence on British raw cotton for Japan's mills. Further, Japanese immigrants marry Abyssinians, treat them as equals. Practical colonial administrators call the Japanese penetration of Abyssinia a most serious threat to white supremacy throughout Africa...
...Through the timely unfolding of nature's laws, modern science has placed new tools in the hands of man which enable a variety of surplus products of the soil to be transformed through organic chemistry into raw materials usable in industry. . . . It is nature's plan. . . . It demands no appropriations from the public treasury. . . . It depends upon individual initiative and sweat of the brow...