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...volumes with a yearly subscription price of $20; Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. of.Chicago (classified telephone directories) bought National Cleaner & Dyer; Industrial Press (publishers of Machinery) bought Heating & Ventilating; Interior Architecture & Decoration bought Good Furniture & Decoration; a newly organized Chicago group called Neyocy Co. bought the 13 other periodicals (Motorship, Diesel Power, Fishing Gazette, Canning Age, Butchers' Advocate...
...Virginia, President Hoover was being remembered in his native Iowa. At Dubuque there was great ceremony as the world's largest twin-screw towboat was named Herbert Hoover by Mrs. Thomas Q. Ashburn, wife of the head of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government-owned barge line. Driven by Diesel motors, the vessel will be able to move a 10,000-ton tow 4 m.p.h. upstream. After trials the Herbert Hoover will go to New Orleans, its home port, and ply between there and St. Louis...
Hardy Pilot Cramer, accompanied by Radioman Oliver Pacquette, was on his way more than a week before he was discovered. From Detroit he flew his Diesel-powered plane to Hudson Bay, Great Whale, Wakeham Bay; thence to Pang-nirtung, Baffin Island; across the Davis Strait and across the Greenland ice cap-a route never before negotiated by airplane to Iceland; dropped down to the sea with engine trouble, made repairs, flew on to the Faroe Islands; the Shetlands; again eluded observers...
Abruptly, Royal Boss Reza created the Persian Foreign Trade Department, gave it monopoly powers. Last week in Stockholm a swarthy Representative of the P. F. T. D. let important contracts to eleven Swedish firms, among them Swedish General Electric, Atlas Diesel (engines), Nydquist & Holm (locomotives) and the Gota Shipyards. Persia's blanket purchase totaled $2,680,000, represents chiefly structural steel, rails and other equipment for modernizing Persia's transport system...
Count von Luckner's private yacht, the "Mopelia," formerly known as the "Vaterland," is to be the cruise ship. She is 235 feet in length, spread 28,000 feet of sail, and is powered with two Diesel auxiliaries. A large smoking room is one of the features of the ship, and here every night, beyond the twelve-mile limit, the cruise party will gather to hear of the thrilling sea raids of Count von Luckner during the World...