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Sirs: In TIME [April 12, under BUSINESS, p. 28] you have an item 'Big Buildings.'; In this item you list eight of the "world's hugest buildings," with the Equitable, Manhattan, 24,000,000 cubic feet first, and General Motors, Detroit, 20,411,000 cubic feet second. You make no mention in this article of the American Furniture Mart in Chicago. This building at present contains approximately 21,000,000 cubic feet, and with the addition which is now under construction will contain approximately 28,000,000 cubic feet...
Last week, the U. S. press was presented with one of the hugest and hottest journalistic potatoes ever baked in Washington, D. C.?the dubiously legal opportunity of publishing the income tax figures of U. S. citizens as paid since Jan. 1, 1924.* Some newspapers had anticipated this opportunity, others had to decide speedily upon their conduct toward the luscious, but alarming, vegetable. Besides the ambiguity of the law, the papers had to consider the reactions of their readers and the dictates of policy. Would curiosity overpower the anger of the individual at seeing the private affairs of himself...
...casual performance, for the Canadians are just discovering football. From end to end, the Dartmouth linemen tower tall, are no lightweights. Quarterback Dooley is well acquainted with his office and has real lightning to unleash in Hall and Oberlander. Rutgers accumulated the week's hugest score, 56 points, by commuting steadily through eleven scoreless sons of Lebanon...
Fifth Game. An avalanche of Yankee basehits, witnessed by history's hugest baseball crowd, 62,817. Score: Yankees 8, Giants...
...example what would a boat race be, if boats were not required to be entered in classes? There skill would be eliminated entirely, it would be the hugest craft, or the man who could buy the most sail...