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...network Chairman Walter P. Chrysler told his 75,000 dealers and salesmen that the new Plymouth was base priced at $495, that price reductions averaged $60. Frisco Turnabout. The sprawling St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Co., which owns rail enough to double-span the distance between Berlin and Bagdad, averted a receivership action two months ago. Last week it performed a turnabout. Its management went to Federal Judge Charles Breckenridge Faris of St. Louis, the judge who gave the Frisco "another chance" in the first action, and told him a tale of depleted cash, crippled borrowing power, pressing creditors...
...more than 250,000 copies, not counting $1 reprints. In his Wright-powered Stearman biplane, The Flying Carpet, piloted by one Moye Stephens, Halliburton rode leisurely from London to Manila. On the way they stopped at Timbuctoo, spent two months with the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, visited Petra, Bagdad, India's Taj Mahal, claimed the first airplane photograph of Mt. Everest (Halliburton publishes a blurry picture which he says was taken at 18,000 ft.), were entertained by Dyak headhunters. For vicarious thrills of thoroughly professional daring, The Flying Carpet can safely be recommended to ladies' social...
...Bagdad, capital of the Kingdom of Irak, is a thriving beehive of 250.000 busy, haggling souls. Mecca, one of the two capitals of the Land of Saud, is a Moslem "show place" of only 60.000 which receives and scandalously mulcts each year some 70,000 pious pilgrims...
Cultured Arabians consider Bagdad's so-called "Arabian Nights" a mere mess of dirty stories of no literary merit. First collected by a Frenchman, they were chaperoned into English literature by Sir Richard Burton, explore-translator who, like many a member of the Explorer's Club, had a taste for zestful tales...
...World War ended Hohenzollern dreams of an all-German Berlin-to-Bagdad Railway. But today one can go by rail to Bagdad from Berlin (or Paris) with only two breaks, the ferryboat ride across Turkey's Bosphorus and the bus ride over a 125-mi. stretch of uncompleted Irak railway...