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...editorial policy in common: Neither prints crime news unless there is some extraordinary reason for doing so. Moscow readers unfolded their copies of Izvestia last week and found themselves staring into the sightless eyes of a corpse, a middle-aged grey-bearded corpse in flannel underclothes with a cord and a leather belt knotted tight about his scrawny neck. Below the picture was a caption: "Who Is This...
...christen thee Akron," declared Mrs. Hoover last week at the Goodyear-Zep-pelin plant at Akron as she pulled a red, white and blue cord which released 48 pigeons from the Navy's new dirigible. ¶President Hoover appointed Frank Evans of Salt Lake City, onetime executive secretary of American Farm Bureau Federation, to the fruit-&-vegetable vacancy on the Federal Farm Board...
When Sir William receives his D. C. L. degree he may mutter casually his favorite expression: "Not too bad, not too bad!" And he may reflect that his potent U. S. competitors Henry Ford, President Alfred Pritchard Sloan of General Motors, John North Willys, Walter Percy Chrysler, Errett Lobban Cord, have no such degree...
...making an eight-hour service between New York and Chicago to compete with National Air Transport (which flies via Cleveland). The Chicago-Columbus route was operated by Continental Airways, until that company went out of business last month. T. & W. A. swiftly grabbed up the strategic opening. (Errett Lobban Cord's new Century Airlines, radiating out of Chicago, was said to have turned a covetous eye upon the Columbus route.) The other new service was American Airways, Inc., between Cincinnati and Atlanta. Flying time is 4? hr., with stops at Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga. Other strategic schedules...
...Surgically, sterilization is simple. In males it is achieved by cutting the spermatic cord, in females by cutting the Fallopian tubes. Frequently X-ray is used to atrophy the ovaries...