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...beginning of the decade there was no U. S. aviation industry worth mentioning. The Army and Navy did all the flying. In 1925 the Government awarded its first airmail contract to a private operator. A year later came the Air Commerce Act, and the beginnings of an airway system. Landing fields were hewn out of desert and mountain land. Beacon lights blossomed amid snow-capped peaks. The mail went through, at $3 a pound, with the pilot sitting on a parachute. Now and then, when a certain St. Louis mail pilot came roaring in with capers which today would bring...
Wrote Westbrook Pegler who, at $35,000 a year, earns about 10? a word for his United Feature column: "The piece has been accumulating compound interest, so to speak, for more than 60 years.... I have heard of Mr. Tennyson that he made a contract to sell his entire output to one publisher at a flat rate of $5 a word, sight unseen, and that the publisher suspected him of bad faith when Mr. Tennyson wrote "Break, break, break On thy cold gray stones...
...that all the variously-named illnesses were the same disease, caused by Bacterium tularense. He named it tularemia. Periodically thinning out the rabbit population by thousands, tularemia also affects many another small animal. Its germ is carried from animal to animal by deer-flies, ticks, lice, fleas. Man may contract it from insect bites, or by direct contact with an infected animal. It usually begins with a small ulcer at the point of infection, followed by glandular swelling. Tularemia kills only about 4% of its human victims but illness is painful, convalescence slow. Up to 1924 only 15 human cases...
...makes shoes studded with precious stones, piped with gold and silver, painted with aluminum to shine in the dark. His prices begin at $14.75, sometimes reach $500. Last year when he gave up his retail store on Madison Avenue and confined himself to manufacturing, Saks Fifth Avenue signed a contract for an exclusive agency in Manhattan. Outside Manhattan, Delman shoes are sold in 30 cities through such agencies as Sommer & Kaufmann of San Francisco, Neiman-Marcus Co. of Dallas, C. Crawford Hollidge of Boston...
...mail scandals can desire. Along with the evidence submitted it forms a clear-out indictment of the aviation companies; various records introduced by Mr. Farley prove that representatives of the companies met and entered into arrangements whereby they agreed not to bid competitively for the air-mail contracts and by which they divided them among themselves. The contracts were then awarded to these companies in direct violation of the Act of June 8, 1872, which provides that "No contract for carrying the mail shall be made with any person who has entered or proposed to enter into any combination...