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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prisons provoked no action in official Washington. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, for eight years the Assistant Attorney-General responsible for prison conditions as well as Prohibition and tax cases, spent more time worrying about the conduct of Federal wardens than prodding Presidents Harding and Coolidge to get more cells built...
Figures told the story of U. S. prison-crowding. Atlanta was built to hold 1,712 men. Its present population is 3,787. Leavenworth's capacity is 2,000, its population, 3,758. Chillicothe, Ohio, has 250 more prisoners than its capacity of 1,000. Only McNeil Island, Wash., is below capacity. As of June 1, U. S. prisoners were incarcerated as follows: In Federal prisons?10,200; in State prisons?1,200; in county jails?...
...Wood, power-boater, said he had ordered a $175,000 aerial yacht, to be built by Dornier. It will have a 24-passenger capacity, with staterooms, shower baths, an electric refrigerator...
Strong is Southern Pacific's position and large its earnings, yet in its position is one bearish item. Like other western roads, the Southern Pacific has watched with growing concern the increase of traffic through the Panama Canal. When transcontinental railroads were first built the driving of a golden spike was the final ceremonial of their completion. But the real gold spike was Cape Horn. Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast...
...makes his mark, is a smooth-faced youth in flannel or corduroy trousers (lately bell-bottomed) and a woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime dance halls there are night clubs and roadhouses nowadays, built up around Reno to accommodate the transient (divorce-seeking) trade. Discreet enough to be considered proper for the University of Nevada's young people, these places bear such idyllic names as "The Willows" and "Idlewild,'' though at a place called Lawton's Springs there is sometimes...