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...stood ranked along the fairways had reason to envy the blown gulls. Those on the ground could see very little; they knew even less about the progress of the matches than the wet sharpers at Epsom Downs knew about the Derby. Lucky were those who stood around the huge 13th green (the biggest golf green in the world) when Watts Gunn and Bobby Jones were playing Cyril Tolley and A. Jamieson Jr. On that green, young Gunn holed a putt that measured 44 feet. Another important green in the foursome play was the second, where Holderness and Wethered made...
These dwarfs and gnomes were the primitive Saxon miners of copper, lead, silver and nickelite (nickel arsenide) from mines which have been yielding their wealth for centuries. For 725 years, since the beginning of the 13th Century, a mine has been operated by the same company - the Mansfeld Mining and Smelting Co. - in Prussian-Saxony, northwest of Leipzig...
None the less the debt commission pursued its course. The day after Senator Reed's exclamations it made public a settlement which it had just made of the Jugoslavian debt of $62,850,000. Interest is suspended in the early years, beginning with ? of 1% at the 13th year and advancing to 3˝% in the last 27 years of the 62 year period. In all $95,177,635 will be paid in principal and interest, but the proposed payments amount in value to only about 32% of the present face value of the debt...
While still Carl of Denmark, he became known as "the sailor prince." From his 13th year he was constantly aboard some Danish warship? used to go off by himself and chew at a great slice of coarse rye bread to keep down his seasickness...
...Charleston, S. C., last week came 1,500 members of the National Foreign Trade Council to the 13th annual convention. While their wives and families proved the famed hospitality of Charleston, visited the harbor islands and other local landmarks, the delegates buckled down to business at their headquarters in the Francis Marion hotel. There were three general and seven group sessions, all addressed by notable authorities on foreign trade...