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Rolling at anchor in a pea-soup fog, the Italian salvage ship Artiglio lay off Cape Finistere last week and plumbed the depths. Steamers passing in the nearby trade lanes hooted mournfully but the Artiglio paid little attention. She was hunting one of the richest prizes of the ocean bottom...
...General Wu Ti-chen went to Mukden to give a few parties for Chang, to make a final attempt to win him permanently to the Nationalist government. Smart Son Chang enjoyed the parties. At Wu's expense they ate bushels of fresh red caviar, gallons of bird's nest soup, mountains of sharks' fins, plovers' eggs, washed down by more gallons of champagne. Platoons of sing-song girls were imported. Merchants ransacked their storehouses for jewels, brocades and rare jades, with General Wu always footing the bill...
...long stubborn adherence to a skimpy vegetable diet (a plate of pea soup was often his whole meal; was what made him faint in the Cincinnati station. The doctor who examined him in Lawyer Klein's home diagnosed his condition as exhaustion caused by self-starvation. The Kleins fed their wandering friend (he used to mail the Klein children sticks of gum with a dime slipped under each wrapper), tried to put him to bed. He insisted on sleeping on a mattress, on the attic floor. Refreshed, he insisted he must go on from Cincinnati to Staunton, Va., Woodrow...
...Campbell Soup Co. sold 2,328,000,000 more cans of its famed tomato soup in the year ended June 30, 1930 than in the preceding year...
...that the truth in the Bible and the effect of that truth, rightly apprehended, in the lives of those who read the 5,000,000 Bibles sent out by the Bible Society, will do more to bring peace of mind and provision for the body than all the soup in America. When men live, instead of exist, they provide for themselves...