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Originally a publicity stunt to boost Hermosa Beach, California's Ironing Board Derby-said to be the world's longest aquaplane race-is sanctioned by the American Power Boat Association
...longest law suit in the history of U. S. Federal Courts was drawing to a close last week. After 26 months of trial, both sides prepared to rest their cases in the Government's anti-trust case against Aluminum Co. of America. The 40,000 pages of testimony, ranged along 15 feet of shelf space (plus another twelve feet for exhibits), contained the evidence for and against the Government's charges: 1) that Alcoa monopolizes 100% of U. S. capacity for smelting bauxite ore into aluminum ingots; 2) that it monopolizes...
...grossed $3,100 for a one-night stand in Rochester, N. Y., skidded down to $100 in Charlotte, N. C., where it was given as a matinee before 52 people in a gamy auditorium usually reserved for cattle and poultry shows. Total take for the winter tour: $310,000; longest run: Chicago, where Henry grossed an average of $11,500 for eight weeks...
...Book. Implicit in every move in Russia's foreign policy is the search for security. Joseph Stalin knows that Russia is weak internally, has the longest, most vulnerable frontier of any major power. Like Alexander I, he knows that Russia's fertile lands and docile people must always be a temptation to any master of Western Europe. The treaty with Germany was designed to give him time to prepare for the attack promised in Mein Kampf...
...high in such bridge masterpieces is New York City's Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, spanning the East River between Long Island and The Bronx. Last week the American Institute of Steel Construction voted it "most beautiful monumental steel bridge completed in the U. S. during 1939." Fourth longest in span...