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...General William McCraw filed with the Supreme Court placed the gross value of Colonel Green's estate at $44,384,500. This may be as much as $50,000,000 short of the final figure, for as yet nobody knows exactly how much Hetty Green's big cub did leave. According to Texas arithmetic, the Federal Government will collect $20,812,905 in inheritance taxes. Other tax bills: $7,132,000 (New York); $5,809,000 (Massachusetts); $5,335,000 (Florida); $5,326,000 (Texas). Total asked by Federal and State Governments: $44,414,905. If administration...
...stared glumly at the concrete pacing. And his grey felt hat, the object of our little one's mocking attention, was twice too big and smacked of not very post post-war days. As he approached her ambush, she set herself; then with the rapidity of a lion cub, she rose and struck; but, alas--a split second too late. The hat remained solemnly intact. "Damn it!" she howled, her pretty little eyes gleaming. "I missed...
...these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over 1,000 of which have been sold. In the first three days, sales of ten more Cubs were reported at $1,270 each. Similar success attended the rival Taylorcraft. Last week, Horace Keane Co. had a slick white Ace Monoplane with a Ford V8, out to rival Arrow...
...blue field, proclaimed itself as Look, The Monthly Picture Magazine. Also on the cover, a convict, Franklin Roosevelt, an actress and an x-ray of a woman's legs fought for attention with a large portrait of Germany's General Goring bottle-feed-ing his lion cub...
...just as she was about to take it aboard the U. S.-bound Empress of Russia, Chinese customs officials seized it on the grounds that she had obtained no export permit. In near-hysteria Mrs. Harkness spent the night in the Shanghai customs house, nursing her precious cub from a bottle while the Empress of Russia sailed without her. After friends had helped her post a large cash bond, customs officials permitted Mrs. Harkness to take the baby giant to her hotel, suggested payment of an export tax of $150 Mexican ($45 U. S.). Then, just as she had given...