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...Cessna Aircraft Company is headed by Clyde V. Cessna, a pioneer who began flying in 1910. The Cessna is one of the speediest ships made. . . . The ships are cabin monoplanes with a cantilever wing and sell from $5,000 to $15,000. . . . The Cessna Company is capitalized...
British shipbuilding, long depressed, is active again, with Clyde, Mersey and Tyne River shipyards expecting an active winter. Clyde shipyards have contracts for 30 vessels, including the Empress of Britain, a 40,000-ton liner to be built for Canadian Pacific. Seven whaling ships, one of 20,000 tons, are building for Norwegian whalers, which are rapidly driving British whalers from the Antarctic...
...Starling had been out quail-shooting and brought back several birds. The President, in starched collar, yellow necktie, leather waistcoat, green mackinaw coat, riding trousers, laced boots and ten-gallon hat, motored ten miles to a backwoods cabin where a Dr. W. B. Hodge, one Clyde Moorehead and one Wirt Hatcher, practiced gunners, awaited him with four setter dogs. The President patted the dogs, loaded his gun, marched into the scrub-oak and broom-sage. Hosts, guides and detectives followed, gunless...
...Cynthiana, Ky., one Homer Reeves, Hooverite, shot & killed one Ferd Lyons, Smithite. In Spencer, West Va., one E. H. Huffman shot one Clyde Moore. In Brooklyn, one Walter McCann, realtor, with a diamond stickpin, diamond ring and $600 in Hoover bets, was fed knock-out drops and virulent poison, robbed and left dead near a speakeasy. In Boston, Miss Gertrude Ryan, secretary to U. S. Representative George Tinkham, told the police that a carful of young Democrats crowded her automobile off the road, maltreated herself and sister, beat her nephew. In Worcester, Mass., a parade of 10,000 Hooverites...
...John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil Co.; William P. Clyde, steamship owner; Henry Phipps, philanthropist...