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...British Treasury collected a death duty (inheritance tax) of $5,620,000 last week on the estate of $13,985,000 left by Major Andrew Coats, of the famed Paisley thread-spinning family...
Movieland is a thinly-disguised portrait of Hollywood: a series of cinematic, lavishly colored scenes strung together on the thinnest thread of plot-a revue in words, in modern, cynical-sensual style. Hero Jacques Struk, of no stated occupation, comes to Movieland, falls in love with one of its minor but typical stars, artificial, Kleig-eyed, burntout; after her death he fades from the picture. Movieland is ruled by Director Emerson, absolute autocrat; its queen is Carlotta Bray, perennial virgin lover, who gives herself to millions on the screen, to none in the flesh, and is finally raped to death...
...Gandhi to the fore as a sort of quaint fool with spinning wheel, who for no good Anglo-Saxon reason is followed with blind fanaticism by gibbering millions. The wheel (every one of the saint's followers and he himself must spin at least 6,000 ft. of cotton thread per month, 200 ft. per day) is indeed a strange weapon...
...wood (viscose rayon) it is treated with sodium hydroxide which reduces it to alpha cellulose. After this it is treated with carbon bisulphide. After one more step an orange-colored, syrupy liquid results which is forced through tiny holes, forming filaments, which after being treated in baths become rayon thread. From a laboratory invention, rayon has grown to be the world's third largest textile...
Massachusetts Thread Mills, Inc., a $7.50 blanket and a share of stock supposedly worth...