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...tails" side of a puffin is the head of a puffin (sea bird with a parrotlike beak and white cheeks). Puffin Islanders also have puffin stamps. red and green, in puffin and half-puffin de nominations, each having a handsome steel engraving of a puffin perched on a rock...
...bottles with soft drinks and sold them for $650,000,000. The greatest single company in the field of carbonated beverages is Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., although it accounts for only a small percentage of the total U. S. ginger ale output. Dominant in carbonated water is White Rock Mineral Springs Co., with over 90% of the output. Last week Canada Dry officials admitted there have been conversations looking toward a merger with White Rock. On the New York Stock Exchange the shares of both companies fluctuated in a ratio indicating that the rumored exchange of one share...
...then they rested on a rock...
...hard ball flying like a trapped bird in a courtyard with smooth stone walls, its floor marked into divisions by lines and trod by leaping black-haired men-such was the game the oldtime Aztecs played and drew pictures of on the rock walls of Central American amphitheatres. Hernan Cortes took it back to Andalusia, whence it penetrated the Pyrenees and the people called it pelota (ball). The game became the main diversion of so many festivals that the Basques gave it another name, now mispronounced all over the world, meaning "merry festival"-jai alai (pronounced high...
...Families, for if Lowells and Cabots dominate Boston, it may be said in Cincinnati that Tafts speak only to Longworths. Half-brother of the 27th President of the U. S.. a philanthropist and pillar of right in his community, Publisher Taft dedicated his paper to conservative, rock-ribbed Republicanism and civic virtue. A monument to the old, tried order of things was the Times-Star right up to Publisher Taft's death last fortnight...