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...huge Dornier DO-X which took off from Rio de Janeiro for Miami as proudly as if she had not been nine months on the way from Switzerland. Her sponsors set a leisurely schedule of nine days for the northward flight, but a crankcase broke near Para, Brazil, and there the laggard sat down again to await a new motor from Natal...
Engaged-Prince Leopold of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Frendenberg; and Countess Blanca de Treuberg, great-grand-daughter of Dom Pedro, first emperor of Brazil...
Actual El Dorado is bleak, barren, devoid of game, but infested with "mosquitoes an inch long-armed with weapons which seemed capable of penetrating the stoutest khaki cloth, and were." The place is at Lat. 2:25:30 North, Long. 63:45:31 West, in Brazil just east of the Venezuelan boundary. It is due south of Halifax, just above the Equator, and about 2,000 mi. from the Orinoco delta...
...green, rolled between two hummocks true to the pin and, with a little plop inaudible from the tee, went in. If the Prince was surprised, he was also justly proud. It was his second hole-in-one this season. The other went in on the Sao Vicente course in Brazil during his Empire Trade Tour. The Prince plays an 85-10-90 game. He uses Walter Hagen clubs and playing hints...
...Santos, Brazil fortnight ago 530,000 sacks of coffee were burned up to reduce the Brazilian surplus, relieve the market, up prices. At about the same time in Washington, James Eli Watson of Indiana. Republican floorleader of the Senate, was beseeching the Federal Farm Board to reduce the U. S. wheat surplus, relieve the market, up prices by drastic action upon the Board's 200,000,000 bu. of wheat. Senator Watson as spokesman for the Senators from wheat-growing States did not seriously propose that the Board destroy its vast holdings by fire, much as such a spectacle...