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Public Printer for Congress and the Government is George H. Carter (salary: $10,000). In his massive red brick plant near Union Station, he heads the largest printing shop in the world. His payroll numbers 4,845. In 1931 he made and used 185,885 Ib. of ink, 83,957 Ib. of bindery glue. He bought $2,692,297 worth of paper on which 88,524,736 copies of Government publications were turned...
...Plucky Play, at odds of 12 to 1: the Arlington Park Handicap; carrying in Ib. to 134 Ib. for Equipoise, the favorite, who missed winning his eighth race in a row by a short neck in a great finish; at Chicago. ¶Winthrop Rutherfurd Jr., No. 5 of the 1927 Princeton crew; the quarter-mile dash for single sculls at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, beating famed Joe Wright, of Toronto, at St. Catherines, Ont. Two days later Rutherfurd won the senior singles and, with his brother John, the senior doubles...
Into a Brooklyn police court was haled Tess Gardell, 300-lb. Italian soprano who performs as Aunt Jemima in radio and musical comedy. She was charged with assaulting (jaw, glasses) one Abraham Zimmer (130 Ib.) whose automobile had collided with hers...
...marine engineering feat of recovering, with the salvage ship Artiglio II, gold from the strong rooms of the sunken Egypt, 400 ft. below the surface at a pressure of 177.2 Ib. per sq. in. (TIME. July...
...Roberti), makes friends with all the members of the team and causes them to squabble with each other. It looks as if Klopstokia may lose after all until W. C. Fields begins lifting weights. He loses his temper while doing so. This causes him to raise a 1,000 Ib. lump which no one else can budge and hurl it so far that in addition to the first prize for lifting weights, he gets first prize in the shot-put. Most able runner in Klopstokia is a ratty major-domo (Andy Clyde). He practices, on the way to the games...