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...South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches like Harry Warner's-where a mountainside was moved to give his pets a whiff of ocean air. California rebuilt its breeding business into a $40,000,000-a-year industry...
...charged bitterly that State highway engineers had protested the design, had been told that Federal money-lending agencies demanded the employment of a nationally famous engineer as a requirement for lending the money. With the bridge covered by insurance, Tacoma citizens waited to find out whether it could be rebuilt, whether the same towers and approaches could be used...
...Aerovias de Guatemala, put big, heavyset, American-born Alfred Denby in charge. Fortune-hunter Denby owns Guatemala's biggest butcher shop, rates high with General Ubico. This month Aerovias, which has been conducting survey flights with sleek Pan Am Douglas DC25, will begin competing with TACA's rebuilt, cratish "Tin Geese" (trimotored Fords...
Year after the fire crime was more blatant, the police more useless than ever. From 1871 to 1894 Chicago had one active patrolman for every 20,000 residents. The Chicago Times in 1877 looked upon the rebuilt city, saw "orgies held there that . . . indicate that ancient Sodom and Gomorrah had phoenixed themselves somewhere in the neighborhood...
...Crazy became a big-time gusher. From the charred remains of the first Crazy Hotel sprang up-&-coming Crazy Water Co., with capital stock of $400,000, an $800,000 mortgage. It 1) rebuilt the hotel, 2) bottled the water, 3) produced Crazy Water Crystals by evaporating the water. Whereas the old Crazy Hotel, a mere therapeutic resort, had sold health on a cash-&-carry basis, Crazy Water Co. put it on drugstore shelves all over the U. S. Today its debt is down to $150,000, its physical assets...