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...grains equal one troy ounce...
...blessed with the Midas touch as George S. Kaufman. Sole author of only one show (The Butter and Egg Man-1925), from 1921 to 1935 he has year after year collaborated on such historic hits as Dnloy (1921), To the Ladies (1922), Merton of the Movies (1922), Helen of Troy, New York (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), The Cocoannts (1925), The Royal Family (1927), Animal Crackers (1928), June Moon (1929), Once in a Lifetime (1930), The Band Wagon (1931), Of Thee I Sing (1931), Dinner at Eight (1932), Let 'em Eat Cake (1933), Merrily We Roll Along (1934), First...
...Brigadier General Daniel Van Voorhis, Fort Knox commandant, and a motorized unit of the Seventh U. S. Cavalry brigade. After concealing canopies were put up at the doors of the baggage cars, long Army trucks backed up to the spur track to be loaded with the 400-troy-oz. bricks. As each truck was loaded it was convoyed by two of the Seventh Cavalry's combat cars on its brief trip to the squat depository building. Few days later the process was repeated as $120,000,000 was shipped from the U. S. Assay Office in Manhattan...
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...Sitka, Alaska, angry citizens tried to seize the cargo of food on S. S. Northland, were repulsed at the gangplank. Elsewhere in Alaska, the food shortage became so grave that Governor John W. Troy telegraphed Washington for help. By contrast, in Boston many striking seamen, unsupported by funds from their union, were literally starved into submission, returned to work...