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...basis of 1830 methods six million men would have been needed to cultivate the soil for the 1929 U. S. wheat crop. With the best extant equipment (such as 60-duckfoot gang plows) 4,000 men could have planted the whole crop...
Only after the Rotterdam had left Boulogne, where all passengers but one got off, and was steaming toward Southampton did the crew learn that they were not headed for home. They mutinied, in a thoroughly Dutch manner. There was no shouting, no shooting. The Black Gang (engine room crew) just let the fires out. On the bridge Captain Van Dulken jangled telegraph handles, shouted down speaking tubes, stumped about like a bipedal Stuyvesant. The crew stayed stubborn and the Rotterdam drifted uncomfortably close to the coast of France. Finally Captain Van Dulken capitulated, but he still had a retort...
...safety deposit room. Aided by a card index, they cut into 350 boxes in which Koch clients, distrustful of banks, were hoarding their cash. Jewelry and securities were untouched. At 4 a. m. Sunday the robbers departed with loot estimated at $250,000 in cash. Chicago police blamed a gang of New York specialists for the city's biggest burglary in nearly a decade...
...like a pugilist entering the ring. When he returned to Manhattan two days later, Tammany Hall was ready for him. Two bus loads of ward heelers were dispatched to Grand Central as the core of a crowd which swelled to thousands. A band marched up playing "Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here." All in white, Peter P. Cappel, head of New York Jewelers Exchange Inc. and a generous Democrat, brought to the station three pretty girls with baskets of roses which they sprinkled under the Mayor's trim little feet. From the hooraying throng an elderly woman...
Died. Howard D. Mannington, 64, henchman of Warren Gamaliel Harding's presidential campaign, lessee of the Ohio Gang's ill-famed "little green house in K Street"; of a lingering illness; in Columbus, Ohio...