Word: canada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...systems of highways and railroads. All records for airplane freight are held by the U. S. S. R. who claim a movement of 66,000,000 Ibs. last year and who recently flew 10,000 sheep to collective farms over 342 miles of the Turkmen Republic's desert. Canada, serving millions of square miles of lake-dotted, forested terrain above the "civilization line," annually handles 25,000,000 Ib. After the U. S., South America probably stands fourth, but with its 60,000 miles of airways, its immediate air cargo potentialities are as great as any other land...
Fast. Flying a 14-cylinder, 1,200 h.p. Twin-Wasp Sever sky that won him the Bendix Trophy for 1937, California's Frank W. Fuller last week whizzed out of Vancouver, crossed 20 miles of Canada, 1,184 miles of U. S. and penetrated 5 miles into Mexico, landing at Agua Caliente 4 hours, 54 minutes after his takeoff. Flyer Fuller cut 34 minutes off the best previous time for linking the three North American nations, claimed to have used but 670 h.p. in his flight...
...final night the U. S. riders, out to protect their slim lead, were charged with twelve faults in the team jumping. The Canadian and Belgian teams tied with eight faults each, and Belgium was awarded first place on the flip of a coin. When the final scores were totaled. Canada had nosed out the U. S. by one point: Belgium was third. Irish Free State fourth and The Netherlands an ignominious fifth...
...Consolidated Royal Chemical Corp., which makes such proprietary drugs as Zymole Trokeys, Peruna, Boal's Rolls and Kolor-Bak ("Why have gray hair?"), is an amalgamation of three companies, Royal Drug Co. and Consolidated Drug Trade Products, Inc., in Chicago, and Consolidated Drugs, Ltd. in Canada. All three are the creations and property of the four Hirschfield brothers, James, Nathan, Harold and Irving. In 1916 James at 27 and Nathan at 25 had saved $12,000 from their retail drugstore in the Maxwell Street slum area of Chicago where they were raised, went into the wholesale drug business. Last...
AUGUSTUS - John Buchan - Houghton Mifflin ($4.50). Attempt, carefully collated, well-considered, sympathetically written by Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, to recreate what the creator of the "Augustan Peace" must have been like. Heavyish going, however, for all but the more serious readers...