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...Hindenburg" was the largest airship ever built, being 811 feet in length and having a gas volume of 7,063,0000 cubic feet. Its weight was 200 tons. The American ships "Akron" and "Macon" were both 785 feet long. The "Akron" crashed in a storm off New Jersey in 1933, causing the death of 73 people. The "Macon" fell off California in 1935, only losing 2 lives...
Maine's Androscoggin River, some 30 miles before it flows down to the sea, divides the cities of Lewiston and Auburn, built upon a thriving shoe industry. Month ago 19 shoe factories of the twin towns were closed by a strike of the United Shoe Workers of America, a C.I.O. union. In Lewiston, last week, Associate Justice Harry Manser of Maine's Supreme Judicial Court handed down a temporary injunction denying the union's right to call the strike. His grounds: the Wagner Labor Act. Said...
London's Sotheby & Co.. famed art auctioneers, recently issued an elaborate 171-page volume with 62 rotogravure plates entitled, "Catalog of the Magnificent Contents of 148 Piccadilly. W. I." No. 148 Piccadilly, W. I. was built in 1865 by Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, father of the first Baron Rothschild, who was elected to Parliament for the City of London in 1847 but remained unseated for eleven years until the restrictions against Jews were removed. He continued to represent the city until 1874 and finally resigned. Lionel Rothschild filled his house with one of the world's richest...
...England, toward the end of the Century, a boatbuilder named Pocock, among whose products was a craft which Explorer Sir Henry Stanley used for navigating rivers in Africa, took to building racing shells. His son Frederick Pocock built shells for Eton, Oxford, Cambridge. Another son, William, became the world's sculling champion, crew coach at Westminster School. Frederick Pocock's son 'George won the United Kingdom Handicap at 17, in a 26-lb. pine shell he had built himself. His daughter Lucy was women's sculling champion of England in 1910-11. In 1911, George Pocock...
...Williams. For seven years this slight, 39-year-old man of God, who left Jamaica to labor in Cuban sugar fields, left there to earn his way as a tailor through Alabama schools and a Chicago seminary, has shepherded an Omaha flock of 57. A good tenor. Minister Williams built up an interdenominational choir which has given 250 concerts, sings on the air once a week. In their modest home near his church, Mrs. Williams last week neglected the washing to receive visitors...