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...South St. Louis, near the bleak and dreary Mississippi riverfront, there stands a gingerbread jumble of 100 buildings which form a city in themselves. They cover an area larger (72 city blocks) than Chicago's Loop, contain a spic & span power plant big enough to serve a city the size of Dallas, and are surrounded with as much rail trackage as Indianapolis. Each year, the buildings consume 3,522,980,000 gallons of water, 4,500,000 bushels of malted barley and the entire output (192,000 tons) of a nearby coal mine. Over them all hangs the sick...
...league, Kirkland made the same defensive switch as its "A" league counterparts, but with more success. The Deacons beat Dudley, 31 to 21. Also in the junior loop, Lowell downed Winthrop...
Chicago's Loop was clogged with honking automobiles and pushing shoppers; the Indianapolis street railway had to put every last car in service to handle the great crowds, and Seattle had one of the biggest downtown traffic jams in history...
...stage is set for a retake on Monday of last night's uproarious session of the votes and loop-the-loop legislation which ended with the bill being returned to the committee...
...this fails to resurrect the good old days for Mr. Cagney, however. Science and the law have teamed up against him. He is run to cover through a flashing, buzzing combination of spectrographs, portable loudspeakers, walky-talkies, and brand-new Lincolns with loop-antennas projecting through their roofs. Finally caught in an oil refinery, Mr. Cagney is shot down by four more of those fine, accurate rifle bullets. One of the bullets touches off the gas storage tank upon which he is perched, and he dies, laughing like hell. He is probably laughing at all the money Warner Brothers...