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...shame that 30,000,000 Indians don't wear shoes!" Thomas Bat'a had cried in Calcutta. Then & there he bought a factory site. "We will sell to the Indian at 30? a pair," he prophesied, "serviceable cloth shoes with rubber soles...
...were they, especially with Mary Garden; Garden escaping the guards at the end of the first act. dashing through the Spanish village with the whole company at her heels; Garden clicking her fan; Garden driving in with Toreador Escamillo (Baritone Mostyn Thomas) in an open barouche with a spanking pair of white horses; Garden being brayed at by a restless little donkey...
...bankruptcy another Macfadden paper, the New Haven Times, was sold for $10,000 to the neighboring Journal-Courier, which promptly junked it. In Michigan two other obscure Macfadden sheets, the Lansing Capital News and Greenville News, were expected to be disposed of momentarily. Some time ago Macfadden sold another pair of Michigan smalltown sheets. (None of these five was a tabloid, none bore the Macfadden fleshpot hallmark.) Remaining in his hands are the only Macfadden papers which have ever made money:* Automotive Daily News, Investment Daily News, Philadelphia tabloid Daily News...
...Atchison for $350. With the additional money he bought ten shares in each of 85 well-known companies, such as Baltimore & Ohio, Erie, Wabash, Anaconda Copper, Baldwin Locomotive, United Cigar, Kreuger & Toll, Curtiss-Wright, Republic Steel. He still had left $8.75 to buy a haircut, a shave, a pair of shoes before taking the accumulated savings bank interest of about $450 to buy an automobile. If he had bought the 850 shares when he sold his Atchison in 1929, they would have cost...
...Easiest pair of journalists to pick out in the great press box were patch-eyed Floyd Gibbons and grinning Will Rogers, wishing they were "back in China where something really happens." It was evident from his second Convention colyum that Reporter Gibbons, who also spoke over NBC, found nothing important happening. Wrote he: "Hello everybody! Chicago looks like it might be going to a picnic. And Chicago ought to be picnic enough for anybody. Why, you can take a taxi and in a few minutes you're out of the heat and crowds of the Loop. Out passing green trees...