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...Winner Howard the $4,500 prize money came in handy. A married airmail pilot with a distinguished racing record, he constantly designs new racing planes, had sunk his last cent in Mister Mulligan. A dark, lanky, unostentatious man of 31, he contrasts strongly with swashbuckling, peacocky Colonel Turner, who last week thirsted for revenge, waited impatiently for the final spectacular Thompson Trophy Race in which he hoped to regain his laurels as No. 1 U. S. speedster...
...Deal in 1933, was a success because the price climbed to 12?; and the Government could get out. The third of 12? made last year was followed by a slump of cotton prices to 117? with the result that farmers dumped their surplus on the Government which today is sunk with some 5,000,000 bales...
...roster of women hauled in rickshas by college coolies [TIME, Aug. 5 ]. This short haul idea will spread and does not need endorsement. The rider gets a superior feeling. The puller gets needed cash. Industry has a new article to manufacture and in time we forget we've sunk to an Oriental level. Promoters will circus ricksha marathons and soon the fine points of the white human horse will be contrasted with those of the black one. Personally I'd back my old Chinese puller against the finest any college could turn...
...picture of a nation's citizens disrespectfully munching sandwiches and looking on, cow-like while that nation's own anthem is being sung is symbolic of the sleazy state to which American patriotism has sunk...
...wheat, rye, corn and oats, Rosenbaum Grain Corp. had gone to the wall the previous afternoon. The scarcity of wheat caused by Drought had eaten into Manny Rosenbaum's warehouse business. Income from storing other people's wheat (1½? a month per bu.) had sunk out of sight; in its place was a heavy drain on cash for upkeep and taxes. And loans from banks were large. Rosenbaum Grain Corp. filed petitions in Delaware's and Chicago's Federal Courts to reorganize under Section 77b of the Bankruptcy...