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...four of them are listed here as not being part of interstate commerce. The fifth is transportation. Construction must have been considered local (the President grew ironical) because a house is built only on one spot although its materials come from everywhere. No matter where coal, oil or copper may be shipped the Court implies that their production is not interstate commerce. If I started manufacturing toothpaste at Hyde Park, I would not be engaged in interstate commerce even though all but one or two carloads of my stuff were shipped out of the state. And growing wheat...
...Cecil Rhodes's dreams, nearly 2,000 mi. by railroad from the cape, is Northern Rhodesia, a high, flat, subtropical savannah, full of elephants, roan antelope and a million lean blackamoors. On this British territory's northern frontier is one of the world's richest copper mines, famed Roan Antelope, an amazing furrow of ore 200 ft. wide, 10 miles long, 3,000 ft. deep at the centre. Roan and its companion mine Mufulira could flood the world's copper market, if that should be the desire of Board Chairman Alfred Chester Beatty, onetime partner...
...Manhattan, officials of the Aquarium announced that their electric eel will be tickled with a copper hook, stimulated into lighting a neon bulb in front of its tank, only three times a day, at 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. Said Trainer V. W. Coates: "He was glad to light his bulb at first but then he got wise to the wires and refused to shoot juice into them. Now I have to tickle him. If he's feeling right he lights two bulbs...
Such a congregation as heard "The Son of God Goes Forth to War" resound from the roof above Bronson Cutting's copper coffin has seldom sat in one church. There were J. P. Morgan* and A. F. of L.'s William Collins, Walter Lippmann and Nicholas Murray Butler, Colonel House and Hiram Johnson, Sir Ronald Lindsay and Norman Thomas, Alice Longworth and Mrs. August Belmont, Joseph H. Choate Jr. and Senator La Follette, the President's mother and Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Senator Vandenberg and Isabella Greenway, soft-spoken Spanish Americans and nasal-twanged Yankees, stockbrokers who dwell...
...long-sought "Hidden City," a high priest's mausoleum, a temple, the "Maya Venus." His most famed exploit: exploring a holy well (limestone sinkhole) into which Mayans had hurled sacrifices. Diving in 80 ft. of water and mud, he brought up skeletons of girls, ornaments of jade, gold, copper, ebony...