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...pole 30 ft. high. Purpose of the sport is to knock off a claw, a beak, a wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock. No. 1 prize of the tournament goes to the man who shoots down the last remaining chunk of the bird. He is crowned king and is awarded a "ten-beer boot" (boot-shaped glass 2½ ft. high) which custom says he must fill and pass round & round & round...
...generator adapted to Western Union's purposes costs about $1,000. By this technique the company sends telegrams from Manhattan to Chicago, Washington, Buffalo, Atlanta. Practical effect of the Hammond-type generator will be to reduce the number of wires necessary for intercity service, thus saving a sizable chunk of maintenance costs as the unnecessary wires are retired from service...
However, the day before Mr. Carlisle's visit, President Roosevelt talked with a powerman whose case is a comprehensive summation of the industry's present grave problems-Wendell Lewis Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., a billion-dollar holding company with a huge chunk of its operating properties located smack in the centre of invading TVA's sphere. Though he has become the industry's spokesman in dealing with the New Deal, Mr. Willkie is by no means a typical powerman. A blunt homespun Hoosier who got into power by way of the law-after...
Rowdyism. In an Oxford restaurant, a typical evening's fun begins with throwing of bread pellets, proceeds to butter pats, poulet en casserole, a huge chunk of smoked salmon, and ends with undergraduates pulling table legs from the tops. "When I was last in one of these restaurants the majority of the women present had enveloped themselves as far as possible in napkins and tablecloths...
Annoyed if not perplexed is Pennsylvania's Governor George Earle by bootleg coal mining, which began about five years ago in the depth of Depression and is now a $30,000,000-a-year industry based squarely on theft but supporting a sizable chunk of his State's population in a manner to which it has become thoroughly accustomed. The coal' leggers rumble ominously about "human rights." After a personal visit to the bootleg fields last year, Governor Earle appointed a five-man Anthracite Commission to find an answer...