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...going into building factories and machines, a smaller share into wages and the purchase of food & clothing. According to one economic theory, this condition tends to cause depressions. To counteract this tendency the Federal Government would give up building steel bridges and concrete dams, and turn to earth dams, channel dredging and other projects where most of its money would go into wages that would be spent for consumer goods...
...plane base. There Pan American's six-man shore-crew has set up a cottage under the three palms. In the lagoon lies the 6,000-ton S. S. Northwind, with a radio direction finder and a 35-man airport staff which laid out a runway channel with green and red buoys. Last week, eight hours after leaving Honolulu, having flown some 500 ft. over the sea at 140 m.p.h., the Pan American Clipper hit Kingman Reef right on the nose, lit on the light green waters of the lagoon, which, reported Capt. Musick, "stood out in sharp contrast...
...chirpy trans-Channel telephone conversation with a Mayfair friend last week, "Kitty," Baroness Rothschild observed of the Duke of Windsor: "As far as I'm concerned, anyone can have him anytime...
...visiting his 2,800-acre farm on Pine Mountain and making out his Federal income tax.* On his first trip in his car he took Daughter-in-law Betsey, his personal secretary Miss Marguerite Le Hand and Ambassador Bullitt. To Columnist Walter Winchell, whose mind runs largely in one channel, the inference from such events was clear. Wrote Gossip Winchell...
Twenty miles out from Manhattan on the wooded, hilly North Shore of Long Island, inland from Manhasset, lies a great and famed 225-acre estate, on a road locally called ''The Irish Channel" from the origin of several large landowners along it. Behind massive iron gates, looming almost as large as the late Otto Kahn's huge chateau down near Huntington, stands a rambling, many-chimneyed Tudor house whose four stories and So rooms contain $2,000,000 worth of the world's greatest paintings, tapestries, porcelains and a large, handsome private chapel. Last week...