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...life, fire and casualty insurance companies (total assets $209,684,400), its 400 manufacturing establishments,* its newspapers, national magazines (Meredith Better Homes & Gardens [circulation 1,000,000] and Successful Farming [circulation 1,000,000]), its five department stores (Younkers, notable)-all the means which the Des Moines trade area of 1,000,000 people need for their business. Most of the men who control all this business are on the directorate of the new bank...
...Wilkes-Barre-Wyoming Valley Airport covers an area of 127 acres. It lies three miles north of the centre of business activity between the Sullivan Trail and the Susquehanna River thus accommodating land or sea planes and Amphibians. Our $40,000 brick and steel hangar is capable of housing fifteen planes and is also equipped with a first-class machine shop. A $10,000 restaurant, adjacent to the hangar serves spectators and visiting pilots with excellent cuisine. At present the port boasts of four ships?two Warner Travel Airs, an Aero-Avian and one CH 300 Bellanca Monoplane...
Most modernly civilized part of Africa is the area of British dominion. South Africa. Native whites call themselves Afrikanders. Their language is Afrikaans, a modification of Dutch. They have a South African Association for the Advancement of Science. That Association last week began a fortnight's entertain-ment of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Capetown, Johannesburg, Pretoria. If the British Association met in the Dominion of Canada, Canadian and U. S. newspapers would tersely refer to it as the B.A.A.S.. or "British Ass." South African papers last week avoided abbreviation, for a great part...
...outline their positions. The Blue "defenders" were composed of 6,000 flesh-and-blood officers and men drawn from the regular Army, the National Guards of New York and New Jersey, the organized Reserve, all under the command of Major General Hanson Edward Ely, commander of the Second Corps Area. Except for the activities of the staff officers of 32 commands, of telegraph, telephone and typewriter operators, of motorcycle messengers, chauffeurs and carrier pigeons, all the fighting was done on large maps with little red and blue flags moved craftily about...
...four days of savage combat, General Ely led his general officers into a cinema house at Bordentown, explained what had been done, told them their performance "smacked of military genius." He added that the U. S. should have a trained emergency army of 200,000 in the Second Corps Area for instant military service, bemoaned the fact that the U. S. has no such force...