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...famed scenically. And wealthy T. Coleman du Pont, whose health obliged him to resign last week as a Senator from Delaware, has long been seeking to buy the site and present it to his native Kentucky as a 2,200-acre state park. The Insull interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky to get a Federal power licence, promising in return a 6,000-acre State park with highways and a bridge. Governor Flem D. Sampson, Congresswoman Langley and Congressman Robison of Kentucky, all Republicans...
...ever had. In Vienna young Ernestine, nearly grown up, tried first for opera but the director said "Mein Gott, what a face!" suggested a sewing machine. Only the roughneck father was glad. His Tini should have a decent career. But she fooled him, went to Dresden, brought back a contract signed by the King...
...example a $1,800,000 contract was let, last week, to the enterprising Automatic Electric Company of Chicago, which, within the next twelvemonth, will install a U. S. dial-telephone system in the Capital of the Nationalist State, the ancient Chinese city of Nanking, founded even before...
...Ford plantations are on the Tapajoz River, tributary of the Amazon. By a contract made last year with the State of Para and the Brazilian Government, Mr. Ford promised to plant 3,000 acres of rubber trees within four years. In return his rubber will be exempt from export taxes for twelve years, and he may import free of duty all materials necessary to the development of his plantation...
...policy is to sell as much as possible abroad. Profits from grain and nearly all other kinds of export sales to go, of course, entirely to the State Monopoly-entirely into the State Treasury-and thus provide cash for such vast industrialization projects as the $25,000,000 contract just let to the International General Electric Company of New York (TIME, Oct. 29) for electrification in the Soviet Union...