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...Chief are: one-third to one-half off the duty on cattle, a reduction limited however to 155,799 heavy beef cattle, 51,933 calves less than 175 lb. each, and 20,000 dairy cattle per year; a 20% to 40% cut for 750,000 bu. a year of seed potatoes; 43% off for 1,500,000 gal. a year of cream; half off on halibut; $2.50 instead of $5 per gallon on whiskey aged four years or more in the wood; half off on lumber with an annual limitation to 250,000,000 board feet on Douglas...
...immature Tarzan and Peck's Bad Boy, uttering the most fearsome grunts and growls; Lysander who turns out to be none other than our own Dick Powell needs some more Shakespearean seasoning, and when his voice rises into the higher octaves, he is practically indistinguishable from Mustard Seed and Pease Blossom...
...nature of the action of bulky food in the intestines has ever been demonstrated," claimed Drs. William Harwood Olmsted, 48, & Ray D. Williams of St. Louis, in telling why they fed three medical students such bulky foods as carrots, cabbage, peas, wheat bran, alfalfa leaf, corn germ meal, cotton seed meal, sugar beet pulp, cellulose flour and agar agar. How do such bulky foods make the bowels move? Drs. Olmsted & Williams decided: "The sum and substance of this physiological experiment goes to prove that the so-called 'bulk' of the human diet is not inert material going through...
...television. With this cable it would be possible to "pipe" a televised program all over the U. S. A. T. & T. patented its cable, applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental line between Manhattan and Philadelphia. Cinema executives objected, professing to see the fertile seed of a ruinous monopoly. The Commission decided that A. T. & T. might install the cable if it were made available to any competitor who might like to putter with it. The company hesitated, unwilling to dispense the fruit of its own labors. Last week A. T. & T. announced that...
Since 1930 Maintenance men have been diligently pruning trees, painting houses, planting grass seed, washing John Harvard, and picking up papers that this fall the Harvard Yard should appear lovelier than ever before in its colorful history...