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...Gabun and Spanish Fernando Po. When a League of Nations Commission verified the practice. President King and his followers, on stern advice from Washington, resigned. Next Liberia, under President Edwin Barclay, defaulted on its loan of $2,250,000 from Harvey Firestone. In 1925 when rubber was $1 per Ib. the State Department had encouraged Mr. Firestone to start a huge rubber plantation in Liberia and lend the African Republic money to pay off its European and other debts. Mr. Firestone planted 55,000 acres of rubber trees, built 100 miles of road (five times as much as Liberia...
That is true. Gough, in 30 days, lost 48½ Ib. and reduced his waistline 9¼ in. In error, TIME stated he ''guzzled 1,080 steins of beer." Really he drank ten 11-ounce bottles per day or a total of 412 average table or 8-ounce glasses, which is much less beer than you reported...
...Honolulu, Inventor Igor Ivan Sikorsky last week stood on the shore of Long Island Sound at Bridgeport, Conn, and beamed at his newest creation, a baby sister of the Clipper, known as S-43. Supposedly the world's fastest (200 m.p.h.) amphibian, the new Sikorsky weighs 19.000 Ib. loaded, seats...
...Eastern Shore dwell several hundred furtive, treacherous, half-wild natives who make a business of ducklegging. Their traps are funnel-mouthed wire contrivances baited with corn, catching up to 40 duck at one haul. Wardens have lately captured three 8-ft., home-made cannon which fire 2 Ib. of shot, kill up to 300 duck at a blast. Trappers ship out between 200.000 and 400.000 duck per year under label of seafood, are said to operate through a syndicate which smuggles the duck into city markets where they are presumably bought by individuals and clubs...
...beer truck drove across his chest. He had just finished a 30-day marathon designed to show that beer is strengthening but weight-reducing. In the course of the marathon, Strongman Gough subsisted solely on beer, of which he guzzled 1,080 steins, missed his goal by 1½ Ib. by only reducing from 259½ to 211. Said he: "I feel swell." He was lugged off to a hospital...