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...Federal Government only its duty of restricting interstate liquor shipments. Such a Wet formula was known as "Repeal & Return." Political realists who considered such a drastic step impracticable and visionary alternately proposed that only the Volstead Act be repealed and the 18th Amendment be specifically amended to permit local option...
...smaller cruisers armed with 6-inch guns Great Britain will have an advantage of 42,000 tons, but beyond this, in order to insure exact equality of opportunity, the United States makes the suggestion that each country will have the option of duplicating exactly the cruiser fleet of the other. Thus Great Britain would have the option, by reducing its number of small cruisers, to increase its large cruisers from 15 to 18 so as to give it a total cruiser tonnage of 339,000 tons, the exact amount of tonnage which the British...
...famed Moffat tunnel, which pierces James Peak, 50 miles west of Denver.* It shortens the transcontinental route between Denver and Salt Lake City by about 175 miles, cuts the ruling grade from 4% to 2%. The Denver & Salt Lake has a 50-year lease (with a 49-year renewal option) on the tunnel...
...intimation of a $6,000,000 Rockefeller Foundation gift impelled Professor Georges Eugène Henri Roger, dean of the Paris Medical School, to ask an option upon a 15-acre, tree-pied tract of the Paris wine depots last week, for new school buildings. The school needs the money. Erected in 1769-76, and added to by slow degrees, it now affords its students neither adequate space nor modern equipment...
...virtual controlling interest in RCA Communications, Inc. and Radiomarine Corp. (communications), RCA Photophone Co. (sound-film recording and receiving equipment), Radio-Victor Corp. (radio sets and talking machines), Radio-Keith Orpheum Corp. (vaudeville circuits and theatres), RKO Productions, Inc. (cinema production), National Broadcasting Co. (broadcasting). Recently it acquired an option on the patents for the Theremin "ether wave" musical instrument, which is played by moving the hands in the air above it. Entertainment, therefore, and particularly musical entertainment, is Radio Corp.'s forte. Last week it went further into music. National Broadcasting Co. announced that with music publishers...