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...coffee spilled as the train rocketed around curves at 90 m. p. h. Twice "Zeph," the burro, toppled over. Folk turned out by the cheering thousands in 164 dust-bitten western towns through which Zephyr flashed. Two thousand five hundred constables, legionaries, volunteer citizens, railway men guarded 1,689 grade crossings. All Burlington traffic was sidetracked, all spring switches spiked down. Breaking railroad records by the score, Zephyr skimmed non-stop over the 401 mi. between Denver and Harvard, Neb. at an average of 79.7 m. p. h., bettering the world mark of London Midland & Scottish Ry.'s Royal...
...factory ships like the Sir James Clark Ross or the 25,000-ton Kosmos swallow the whale through a port in the stern and haul the carcass on deck. There flensers with knives as big as hoes strip the blubber, which produces the highest grade of oil. Power saws reduce the skeleton to handy chunks which can be tossed into steam digesters. In some ships the meat is canned (largely for Japanese consumption) and what scraps remain are ground or burned for fertilizer. For "whalebone," which is not bone but gargantuan mouth bristles, there is now almost no market...
This Saturday the grade will move back into the spotlight when the Varsity and the Alumni play their annual game at Soldiers Field. According to all reports the old-timers haven't been weakened by age and will be tough opposition...
...crusading publisher (Gary Grant) launches an attack upon Taronian and all other foreign loans. Princess Nancy is offered $5,000 extra to distract the publisher's attention from his front page. She succeeds so well that the two fall in love. A sleuthing reporter and a low-grade actor uncover Nancy's true identity, are on the point of exposing her when the real Princess intervenes. Thirty Day Princess is light entertainment, competently acted. Typical shot: Nancy lulling the publisher's suspicions that she is also the Princess by chewing gum eating with her knife...
...Glover, of Littleton, West Virginia. A.B. (Salem College) 1927; A.M. (West Va. Univ.) 1932; Principal, High and Grade Schools, Littleton, W. Va. Frederick H. McKelvey, of Charleston, Ill. A.B. (Univ. of Ill.), 1930. Principal, Junior High School, Charleston, Ill. Albert W. Purvis, of Truno, Nova Scotia. A.B., (Univ. of New Brunswick) 1931. Instructor, Provincial Normal College, Truro...