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...large earnings of the road, however, stuck in the crop of some of the preferred stockholders, who had waited dividendless for years. Presently some of them brought suit for $29,000,000, approximately, earned but not paid on the preferred prior to 1923. Talk of a 6% dividend on the common was promptly dropped...
...that his post in the Rhea County High School be given him again next fall. Teacher Scopes entered into the spirit of the trial sufficiently to let Sheriff R. B. Harris formally serve his indictment in front of the drug store where the conversation that led to the test suit was held. Press cameras clicked and "Prosecutor" White & Co. were busier than ever sending out the results...
...Nick Gibson, publicity man, retracted a suit for $1,500 damages in which he claimed having originated the trial for a "stunt." The city commissioners of Dayton settled with Gibson out of court...
...Soviets have continued to invite the investment of American capital in Russia, in much the same way as the fly was invited to walk into the spider's parlor. Oil operator Sinclair went to Russia, saw?and returned again to the U. S. Others have followed suit. No one doubts the splendid natural resources of Russia, but the resourcefulness of the Soviets in commandeering foreign capital has been such that U. S. capitalists have literally become gunshy...
...used nearly half their gasoline. If the planes were ever to take them home again, they must descend. And there below them the first streak of blue seen in eight hours indicated water, a "lead" in the pack ice. Down nosed Amundsen in the N-25, the N24 following suit. Suddenly, a break in the steady roar of the motors, as startling as a shout, smote Amundsen's ear. N-25's engine had died. The pilot, Riiser-Larsen, now must land wherever he could. God help him ! He made the water, but not the main "lead...