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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...northern Idaho and western Montana. Klamath, Trinity, Siskiyou and Columbia National Forests were all on fire. Smoke hung over the high Sierras as far as Reno. Nev. It blinded forest lookouts, prevented them from spotting new outbreaks. Ships in Puget Sound used fog horns as the pall from the biggest fire of all, the worst in British Columbia's history, swept unchecked over 100,000 acres of Vancouver Island. Millions of feet of felled timber were consumed as well as standing trees. Brick-dry, the forests virtually exploded...
Fifty years ago, when the biggest national advertisers were patent-medicine manufacturers and an annual appropriation of $100,000 was regarded as a breath-taking extravagance, George Presbury Rowell started publishing a pocket-size semimonthly journal for advertisers, gave it the chaste title Printers' Ink. U. S. business was feeling the faint stirrings of the machine age. Advertising was destined to become the midwife for mass distribution and Printers' Ink soon became a handmaid for advertisers. Today, Printers' Ink, still pocket-size, is a weekly with 17,803 subscribers who spend nearly all of the nation...
That Dixie Davis was not only leaving prison regularly to dally with a doxie, but doing so with the connivance of two Manhattan detectives, who, supposedly, were by court order taking him to have his tonsils treated, was the substance of the week's biggest scoop, scored by the New York Mirror (Hearst). Free-Lance Correspondent Robert Chulsky, 21, an employe in a building near where Hope Dare lived, tipped off the Mirror and Photographer Smooke. Day after the Mirror story broke, to the acute embarrassment of District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, other dailies picked it up. New York...
...days before 1929, Race Week at Larchmont was the rendezvous for big-boat yachtsmen, and America's Cup sloops (with crews of 25 or more) mingled with the small fry. But the day of million-dollar racing yachts has apparently passed. Biggest news, therefore, that came out of last week's regatta was the announced plan to send a fleet of four U. S. Twelves to England next spring for a brand new series of races against boats flying the British, Scandinavian, French, German and Italian flags. Because Britain's T. O. M. Sopwith, unsuccessful challenger...
...adjoining map shows how (Texas excluded) the South's six biggest industrial centres have grown since 1914. That Louisville grew most is due partly to tobacco, partly to liquor, and partly to the fact that, lying on the Ohio, it does not suffer from the freight-rate disparities which Governors of other Southern States last week were protesting...