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Chicago's State Street mobs were literally a danger to life & limb: one shopper clocked the time it took her to navigate a twelve-foot vestibule leading into Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Result: 25 minutes flat. According to one description of Marshall Field & Co.'s escalators: "They look...
Probably no similar stretch of land in all the world is so crowded with historic ruins, sterile and clean beneath the desert dust. Through oases in Turkestan, over one of the master roads of history, wound caravans and pack trains that linked the West and East. To Europe went silks...
Dangerous Money. Even the Treasury's chief proposal for taking some of the "dangerous dollars"-higher excise taxes -raised a rumpus. The Treasury asked for $2.5 billion from increased excises on liquor, tobacco, furs, candy, etc.
Spaniards with money and Falangist affiliations ate well in Madrid. Their women sported silver-fox furs and Parisian hats. Other Spaniards sullenly starved.