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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Total U. S. typewriter exports were $18,020,495 in 1925, have shown a steady increase to $21,010,890 last year. Great Britain took $3,250,018 worth, despite intensive propaganda that "British Machines are Best." France came second with a purchase of $1,971,617, Argentina took $1,020,702, and Canada followed close with $1,000,944. Six other countries each took between $600,000 and $900,000 worth: Italy, Germany, British India, Brazil, Spain and Czechoslovakia...
...even when the player with White opens with the king's pawn move, the Black player has become increasingly wary about countering with the same reply.? So most of the games will probably start on the queen's side of the board, and there will be a great many drawn games. Possibly Bogoljubow, who has an enterprising style that overwhelms weak players, will finish ahead of Capablanca, who plays cautiously against everyone and thus, though hardly ever beaten, draws against opponents whom Bugoljubow is likely to beat...
...Chicago Journal. But traditions of the past make no profits in the present and last week the Journal was bought by the Chicago Daily News, whose new plaza is the most beautiful spot in Chicago. Leader in the Chicago evening paper field, the News was founded in 1875, made great by the late Victor Fremont Lawson and the late Melville Elijah Stone, passing to Walter Ansel Strong after the death of Mr. Lawson...
...king himself had come the fame that came to Harry Payne Whitney's 72-year-old trainer. A jockey at 16, he early won fame and money. When he knew all there was to know about horses, he became a trainer, trained for such men as the late great August Belmont, James R. Keene. finally for Mr. Whitney. "This is my last ride," said Trainer Rowe last week as he was being driven to the hospital, stricken with a heartattack. His "last ride" over. Saratoga flags were half-masted, the Whitney horses scratched from one day's sheets...
...week, as annually, by Samuel Insull, president of the Chicago Civic Opera's board of trustees. The 1928-29 deficit was $528,356, but with 500 more guarantors than before, the amount each paid was relatively small. Next year will be Chicago's banner opera year, beginning in a great new opera house on Wacker Drive, with an imposing list of singers and conductors engaged and re-engaged for the season...