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When Rome correspondents are asked by editors abroad to scratch their heads and name an Italian who might be considered "Mussolini's rival" they generally name the Governor-General of Libya, His Excellency Grand Councilman Italo Balbo. Reason: Balbo led a mighty mass formation flight of Italian planes in 1933 to Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition and it is logical to suppose that the Lindbergh publicity he thus won "made Mussolini jealous," had its sequel when Il Duce packed him off out of the world's limelight to rule Libya. Last month Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew...
Starting almost from scratch, Coach Fesler has built up an organization which has captured student fancy. Large crowds turned out for a number of the games, including many who had never seen a basketball game before but who found their first experience stimulating. Today basket is sufficiently important to be accorded the recognition given to hockey and baseball...
...company began to ride high as Boeing snagged an Army contract for 200 pursuit planes. Such jobs kept him thriving until 1927, when he again jumped into commercial aviation with what his competitors considered a suicidally low bid for the first Chicago-San Francisco air mail contract. Starting at scratch, he managed to get his planes in the air on time, made money, thus started what is now United Air Lines. This led to the formation of the first U. S. aviation trust-United Aircraft & Transport Corp.-which at once became the greatest power in the U. S. heavens. Meanwhile...
Even worse would have been the can makers' showing last year had it not been for beer. Starting from scratch in 1935, canned beer caught so fast that the brewers in 1936 bought about 725,000,000 cans, 600,000,000 from American Can alone, or five beer cans for each & every U.S. citizen...
...physician refers a patient to another for a price-is almost as widespread in the U. S. as it is in France, where it has been regulated. So flagrant has the practice become in New York City, where medical competition is keen and many a physician has to scratch gravel to survive, that last week the president of the Association of Private Hospitals Inc. called in the press to expostulate...