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...storeroom of Madison Square Garden, piled high through most of the year, is a big heap of pine board sections dusted with splinters and pockmarked with uncountable little holes where the spikes of runners have prodded down into the soft wood. Last week the board track with its splintery topography telling illegibly of past races was set up again for the national indoor meet of the Amateur Athletic Union...
Hammond and Little River Redwood Co. Ltd. starts business with assets of some $60.000,000. with 3,500 employes and an annual payroll of over $6.500.000. Redwood is a soft, workable wood much like cedar and cypress. It has no resin or pitch, burns slowly, hence is favored by homebuilders. It is hardy, will neither rot nor warp. In addition to sales to U. S. consumers, the new company will push exports, especially to tropical countries. For, unlike most lumber, redwood is not relished by white ants...
...Bets were up in all the native villages along the route; Governor-General Jules Carde had motored from Algiers. At his signal a long line of 17 dromedaries moved forward, at first evenly, then in bunches. They started north along the way to Ghardaïa, running in the soft sand beside the motor road...
Rogers hops a plane and does a great thing for the Red Cross; Newshawk Brisbane rides a soft and safe Pullman and tells the world what he sees from the car window and it's the same old bunk he has been handing out for the past ten years...
...bank officials' lawyers. On the other side appeared District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain and above all Max D. Steuer in the double capacity of Special Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Special Assistant District Attorney appointed for the case. For his services in this case the soft-tongued Mr. Steuer, who has pocketed enormous fees, who has a reputation in the law of having outsmarted more men than Odysseus, is to be paid $1. It was he who presented the case to the grand jury and secured the indictments. So unwelcome was his participation that Messrs. Marcus and Singer...