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Purchased were 8,000 acres of barren sand dunes. On March 12, 1906 surveyors drove their first stakes among the tumbleweeds for U. S. Steel's fiat city. Streets were laid out, houses built, water and gas mains sunk. Top soil was brought in to spread over the sand, to grow trees and grass in. Great scoopers chewed a mile-long harbor back from Lake Michigan. Railroad connections were made. Against the sky began to rise the jagged outlines of steel mills, foundries, tin-plate plants. Within a year $100,000,000 was dumped into this desolate Indiana waste...
Green Hell. About a month ago Count Edmondo di Robilant and Mechanic Mauranta Quaranta left Sao Paulo, Brazil in a fast Fiat pursuit plane, to reconnoitre a prospective air line to Bolivia. Forced down on a tiny clearing in a green hell of jungle, near the bank of the Paranapanema River, the two men set out on foot. They lost their map and compass. A box of crackers, their only food besides a jar of marmalade, was consumed by red ants while they slept. Bitten raw by insects, torn by thickets, nearly starved, the men pushed on through the swamps...
Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata in B fiat by Felix Weingartner and the Royal Philharmonic (Columbia, $10)?A great conductor makes a satisfactory symphony out of a great piano sonata...
This bill, already passed by the House of Representatives, went to the Senate backed by the fiat of Australia's most potent Labor boss, Edward Granville Theodore, Treasurer of the Commonwealth...
...personal fiat, King Carol II dismissed last week Governor Burileanu of the National Bank of Rumania...