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...been a crowned head, he could not have been received, according to local newshawks, with greater consideration by Anglo-Egyptian officials. Suez Chief of Police Frank Harvey took the promoter off in a special launch, assigned a squad of detectives to guard him as he hurried from the canal area to Egypt proper. At the barrier an Egyptian officer snapped to salute and Francis M. Rickett drove off escorted by a motorcade of Egyptian troops, with a machine-gun car leading on the three-hour run to Cairo where he put up at the swank Continental Hotel. Announcing he would...
...make the concession a pointed barb at Italy it was made to cover no less and no more than the Ethiopian area which by the Treaty of 1906 was declared a "sphere of Italian influence." This area is being visualized by thinking of Ethiopia, which is roughly round in shape, as the face of a watch. Then all of Ethiopia covered by a minute hand as it sweeps around from 12 to 8 is covered by the Rickett Concession. Not in this area is Lake Tana, vital water source of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. On the imaginary watch, Tana...
Johnstown, N. Y.: "Health authorities reported 24 cases of infantile paralysis today in the Johnstown-Gloversville area...
...Many Homes Have Radios? Answer: 19,001,592. or 58.4%. This figure does not represent maximum potential circulation since no network claims to cover every square mile of the U. S. For 79 selected programs, the networks claim an average "listening area" of 12,489,886 sets. But all sets are not running all the time...
...Broadway, Manhattan, Steel Corp. announced that it was about to combine operations of its two biggest subsidiaries, Carnegie Steel and Illinois Steel. Together these two giant subsidiaries account for nearly one-third of the total producing capacity of the U. S. Under Carnegie's grimy wing in the Pittsburgh area are the famed Farrell, Duquesne, Edgar Thomson and Homestead Works. Illinois owns the Gary, Joliet and South Works around Chicago. Both turn out a vast and almost identical list of steel products. Yet under U. S. Steel's conservative if not downright antiquated selling system, both have maintained sales offices...