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...blimps over London carrying magnalite signs, soon sells all his stock to enthusiastic herds of subway riders. At this point another capitalist gets his hands on the only process that makes magnalite commercially usable. Faced with a long-drawn fight for control which will ruin all the little stockholders, grandstanding Dan Armstrong makes the best grandstand play...
Meantime Toronto, with a native itch for the long shot and a grandstand view of Ontario's vast mineral resources, captured Canada's relatively young mining industry. As far back as the century's turn when the big strikes were still in the West, Toronto's interest in mining was so hot that not one but two mining stock exchanges were founded. Later they merged as the Standard Stock & Mining Exchange, long a rival of the conservative old Toronto Stock Exchange, which dates back to 1852. With development of the great Ontario mines around Cobalt, Sudbury...
...Manhattan agents find their best, highest-priced Coronation Procession seats sold out, or nearly. Thus Raymond Whitcomb, who have the grandstand adjoining Westminster Abbey, have sold all the top-price seats they offered at $262.50 each, have plenty left at down to $94.50 each, their cheapest. Thomas Cook & Son have the stand of 4,000 seats near Hyde Park Corner and throw in with one of these seats a minimum rate inside cabin on the Kimgsholm for $395 roundtrip. This definitely cheap inclusive rate covers dinner, breakfast and bus transport between the ship in the Thames and a point within...
Sight Unseen. A seat anywhere along the Coronation Procession route (see map), and there are 23 miles of grandstand seats, schedules the sitter to see the King & Queen bowling along in their golden Coach of State. After leaving Westminster Abbey the King will be wearing the Imperial State Crown. Other members of the Royal Family will be in open landaus or limousines as will foreign Crown Princes, Special Envoys, Ambassadors. Necessarily the Procession is all that the public can possibly be shown, for the Coronation must take place inside the Abbey. About 15,000 subjects of the King have...
Covering the event from the press box on top of the grandstand, were the ablest reporters in the U. S. Wrote Grantland Rice, dean of U. S. sportswriters: ". . . Rosemont and Seabiscuit should lead the chase. . . ." Columnist Sidney Skolsky described the scene when the bugle blew for the parade to the post: "The . . . track was so crowded there almost wasn't room enough for the horses. . . ." At the post, it took three and a half minutes to get the field of 18 in line. Then, in a sudden hush, the line began to move and the crowd to roar. What...