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This was so much raw meat for Utopian Reed. Instead of the $20,000 a year income promised two years ago by Technocrats, and the $10,000 a year income promised by Utopians in California, he took Mr. Loeb's figure. $4,370. "These." he said, "are virtually Government figures. Their accuracy is unquestionable...
...protests against labeling Sniafiocco a synthetic or substitute cotton. It is superior to cotton, say the Italians, in that the staple length of its fibre is precisely even and can be given any length wanted by the spinner, and that it is free of dirt and leaves which contaminate raw cotton. Thus although Sniafiocco fibre costs more than cotton (7 lire against 5.50 per kilo) Sniafiocco textiles cost less than cotton cloth (3 to 8 lire against 10 to 15 lire per metre). Sniafiocco fabrics of varying texture and appearance can be made by admixing small amounts of wool...
...turning it out at an estimated rate of 90,000 lb. per month. Most of this was exported to Germany. Snia Viscosa now looks for a drop in German purchases because Germany has developed an artificial cotton of her own called Vistra. At Vistra, which looks very much like raw cotton, textile men in the U. S. few weeks ago had their first look...
...tried all the known diets to rid himself of nervous dyspepsia: vegetarian, raw meat, raw vegetables, nuts. milk. But he could probably subsist on publicity alone. It is meat and drink to him. He is not much of a businessman. In one breath he says that his publishing business brings him in more than the $10,000 salary of California's Governor. In the next he swears he has less than $150 in the bank. Fact is, the Sinclairs are still floundering in insolvency as a result of financing Director Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder Over Mexico, Upton...
...Francisco still remembers Juan Miguel Aguirre. In the raw mining town of 1848 he was the first to sell water to citizens who lacked a nearby spring or well. He barreled his water in Sausalito, barged it across the Golden Gate, packed it on burros to peddle through muddy streets for as much as $1.50 per gal. "Caramba!" would cry astonished Juan Miguel Aguirre if he could return to San Francisco next week to see one of the world's great water systems begin pouring into the metropolis a colossal stream from a far-away mountain. Canyon. Across...