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...each point they found that Columbus' account rang true. Columbus had noted that as he approached the Azores the seaweed turned brown, disappeared a day before he reached port. So found Professor Morison & party 447 years later. They saw on Corvo Island in the Azores the fantastic rock formation that Columbus had seen through fog and mist and which seemed to him to point west. Twenty days from the Canaries to Trinidad-it had taken Columbus 26-convinced the seafaring Professor that Columbus was a very fine seaman, who "could get to a place and then come back...
...nation's 20,820,000 telephones.* They sprang up around the turn of the century after the basic Bell patents ran out, fought A. T. & T. for breathing space, by 1914 were at peace with their corpulent competitor. Clinging to their often profitable franchises like lichens to a rock, these little fellows annually turn in a $130,000,000 gross...
...Rock-a-Bye Royalties...
...state that Erne Canning Carlton, writer of Rock-a-Bye Baby, "turned many a penny from its royalties...
...Composer Erne Canning Carlton earned an estimated $20,000 from Rock-a-Bye Baby. During her last seven years she was saved from destitution by a $50-a-month gift from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (of which she was never a member). ASCAP also paid her hospital and funeral expenses; its president, Gene Buck, sent the largest floral piece to her funeral. Second largest was from the Hoboes of America. Its inscription: "To Our Beloved Friend...