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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite its million-dollar net profits Hotchkiss & Cie is really small fry in the armament world compared to such a French giant as Schneider-Creusot. Its distinctions are two: 1) it is independent of Schneider-Creusot which owns or controls 412 arms and allied enterprises including Czechoslovakia's Skoda. 2) Though a French firm, its founder like its present managing director was a U. S. citizen, Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, born in Watertown, Conn. in 1826, made a fortune manufacturing guns and munitions for the North during the Civil War. He went to Europe in 1867, established a cartridge factory...
Twelve thousand pairs of eyes stared fascinated when a youthful giant named Jack Torrance from Louisiana State stepped into the shot-put circle. A huge sign hung at one end of the stadium advertising TARZAN AND HIS MATE at the Des Moines Theatre. A hairy-legged Tarzan in his own right, Jack Torrance stands 6 ft. 6 in., weighs 275 lb. All necks craned as he picked up the 16-lb. brass ball, cocked his huge arm, stuck out his big jaw. All mouths gasped as the missile flew brightly into the air, thudded to earth far beyond the last...
Next to copper, giant Russian sunflowers 16 in. wide are Minister McDowell's specialty. "I got the farmers to grow them for cattle fodder. It gives you from 15 to 24 tons per acre. We cut it up just before it gets green, and silo it. Yes. sir, the cows break their necks getting...
...more than last year. Crowds swarmed to Henry L. Doherty's Miami-Biltmore horseshow at Tropical Park to see an Army jumping team from Fort Riley beat Forts Myer, Sill, Benning, McPherson and Oglethorpe. In a Miami store window a pair of Primo Camera's giant clodhoppers stood filled with pennies-offering a pair of free tickets to this week's Camera-Tommy Loughran championship fight to whoever guessed most accurately their contents...
...giant crabs, salmon, herring and cod that swarm along the broken Russian coast of the Okhotsk, Japan and Bering Seas, were last week the subject of grave diplomatic conversations in Tokyo and Moscow. Russian property, they became international following the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) when the Japanese demanded and got equal rights with Russians to fish certain waters. After the Russian Revolution, Japanese fishermen stampeded into all the best fishing grounds, exported their crab catch largely to the U. S., their salmon catch to Britain. Not until 1928, when an eight-year Fishing Convention was signed, did the Soviet...