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...About 25 mi. from small Eldorado, Ohio. †Writer (books, magazine articles), poet (Lace Maker of Segovia), authority on Spanish and Spanish-American affairs, son of California's late great Collis Potter Huntington. His wife is Sculptress Anna Vaughan Hyatt Huntington (small bronzes, large Joans-of-Arc in half a dozen cities, flagpoles in Manhattan). *For his indefatigable daily despatches to the Times from Little America dramatizing the exploits of the Byrd Expedition, Correspondent Russell Owen received the 1930 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism...
...Only 65 sq. mi. in area, Liechtenstein is one of Europe's tiniest independent states. It is situated between Switzerland and Austria, has a population of 11,500, no army. Present ruler of Liechtenstein is Prince Franz, 77. Two years ago Prince Franz married Frau Elsa von Eross, née Baroness Guttman of Vienna. He had married her secretly in 1921 in Salzburg, Austria. Because she was a commoner he could not make public the marriage. She is wealthy, of Jewish descent...
...construction will be completed and the Akron may be hauled out by her mobile mooring mast for a first test flight late this month. Yet to be finished are such equipment as the controls of the steering and elevating surfaces; the radio, designed to transmit over a 6,000-mi. range; the telephone system of 18 instruments; the system for electric power control throughout the whole ship by a switchboard weighing only 200 lb.; the crew's quarters within the envelope. These items, like all others that went into the Akron, must be passed by Lieutenant Thomas...
...mi. of seam thread...
...mi. piano wire...