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...land, the suave representative (at one time or another) of Schwab, Chrysler, the Armours, Harvard University, Princeton, Thompson-Starrett Co., Portland Cement, the Guggenheims, the Red Cross, the Republic of Poland, New York's Interborough subway, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Waldorf-Astoria and-longest and most notably-the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Rockefellers...
...three, is expected to have one ready next summer. Both types of machines, known to Pan American as "clippers," are four-engined monoplanes. On Pan American's present routes they could carry 50 passengers & cargo. With mail only, they could fly regularly, against 30 mi. head winds, the longest jumps over Atlantic or Pacific (Bermuda to Azores - 2,000 mi.; San Francisco to Honolulu...
After six months bald, hawk-eyed Judge John Munro Woolsey had tried to speed the longest U. S. criminal trial a bit by convening court a half-hour earlier each morning. That was after Chief Defendant Otto E. Goebel went on the stand every court day from March 30 to May 18. When he finished testifying he was 25 Ib. lighter and his hair had turned snowy white. The charge against him, his two sisters-in-law (Misses Irene & Elizabeth Flautt) and six salesmen was scandalous but simple. Goebel and associates had succeeded in bilking $3,000,000 from...
...coat with a fur collar which Queen Mary wore on even the warmest days- gave spectators at the All-England tennis tournament last week enough to look at before the final. But it was the final, between Vines and Crawford, with Vines favored to win, that produced the longest, loudest cheers that anyone could remember at Wimbledon...
Amid the popping of firecrackers, the sloshing of wet towels and the laugh of horseplaying members the New Jersey legislature adjourned one dawn last week after one of the longest sessions on record...