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Sirs: "Died. Bill Pickett, 65, oldtime bulldozer on the famed 101 Ranch of Col. Zachary Taylor Miller; in Noble County, Okla. A towering Negro . . ." (TIME, April 18). I have Col. Zack T. Miller's letter for a suggested correction. I quote: "Bill Pickett would weigh about 170 Ib. and was 5 ft. 10 in. high and was the originator of the bulldogging stunt (not bulldozing). This nigger was one of the best hands that was ever on this place and up to the time he died would rather jump off a good horse onto a wild steer than...
...apprehensively for the trimotored Ford carried eight passengers. "Freeburg talking. Motor vibrating badly." Cool, Pilot Freeburg continued to describe to headquarters how the terrific vibration of the unbalanced propeller jerked the motor from its mountings, how it lodged in a wing strut, damaged the landing gear. Lest the 500 Ib. of dead metal drop and injure some one on the ground, he swung his crippled ship out over the Mississippi River, banked steeply, shook the engine off, watched it fall down, down, down safely into the water. After requesting a relief ship, he maneuvered 25 mi. on two motors...
...last week came Japan's great attempt to stabilize the silk market in the same manner the U. S. Farm Board has attempted to stabilize grains and cotton. The great Japanese surplus of 108,000 bales (14,144,000 Ib.) which has overhung the world's silk markets for many months was sold to E. Gerli & Co., Manhattan silk commission merchants, for $16,320,000, a sum which will come in handy for the war-worried Japanese Government. The price came to $150 a bale against an open market price of $178 for "crack double extra" (basic grade) silk...
...noticed in your issue of April 18 under Miscellany that the world's smallest baby is a Kansas City boy weighing i Ib. . . . I enclose a clipping from a local newspaper, showing a picture of THE WORLD'S SMALLEST BABY, a Miss Mercer, of Wards' Station, Columbus County, N. C., who tips the scales at a mere half-pound...
...Ib. i oz. each...