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Second difficulty of the Dallas Fair was a shortage of time. Although the Centennial as a whole was planned more than twelve years ago, the Dallas Exposition did not get a good start until last autumn. Over 40 buildings had to be erected, two whole golf courses bought, cut up into sod and used to grass the Exposition. For the last few months, 7,000 to 10,000 workmen have been working three shifts a day. On every job was a big sign reading " - days until June 6. We shall not fail." Last week the fateful numbers on the sign...
...guns. Two years ago Somoza's men assassinated his chief enemy, famed Rebel Augusto Cesar Sandino. Last month President Sacasa tried desperately to stall off his kinsmen by getting Nicaragua's two parties to agree to nominate only one Presidential candidate for Nicaragua's elections next autumn, first since the Marines left...
...miles across the Arctic Circle to Bodo, finally another 425 miles past Narvik and Tromso to the famed town of Hammerfest, northernmost port in the world, where it sliced into the harbor at 5:15. Thus, in the first trip of a daily service that will last until autumn, did Norwegian Aero Transport Co. inaugurate the world's most northerly airline. Cost of ticket...
...another "pawn." To dumbfounded newshawks in Albany Governor Lehman had just handed a mimeographed statement: "I feel that the time has come when I may ask release from the cares and responsibilities of the Governorship. Accordingly I shall not be a candidate for re-election this autumn." A shock to all but Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had known it "for some time," Herbert Lehman's firmly-worded refusal to run for the third time sprouted a crop of rumors. Some said it was due to Mrs. Lehman's dislike of Albany as a residence. Others reported that...
...They sounded out the old dealers who had held Berkey & Gay franchises, found 124 of them ready to give estimates of a year's requirements. Collecting old-time Berkey & Gay officers for the new company, they hired 300 men to open up one plant last autumn, floated $1,600,000 in new stock, started commercial production last April...