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...Jimmy's owner is Banker J. Frank McKenny of King City, Mo. whose herdsman is Elliott Brown's uncle. There was no chicanery about Jimmy's championship. He was sold for beef at auction to the Breakers Hotel, Atlantic City, for $2,700, or $2.50 per Ib. (Last year's prizewinner was bought by Chainstoreman James Cash Penney at $8.25 per Ib...
...York City, with 300,000 idle, Banker Seward Prosser's committee had raised $2,512,000, given park-cleaning jobs to 10,000 Jims. Police distributed 1,500,000 Ib. of food in 65-lb. portions...
...winter. While at rest on its shoring, the Graf will be minutely inspected by dirigible experts, to estimate an airship's lifetime. The Grafs record for 1930: 155 flights covering 144,275 mi. Passengers carried, 6,278; mail, 2,200,000 pieces; freight, 12,166 Ib. Zeppelin officials claimed that revenue from passenger fares met the cost of gas, salaries, insurance, depreciation...
...Cottonwood County, Minn, had the biggest load but he did not win. Competitive cornhusking has its intricacies. For every pound of marketable corn that the gleaners find left in the field the husker is penalized three pounds, for every ounce over five ounces of silks and shucks per 100 Ib. of corn husked, 1% of the weight of shucked corn is deducted; for every ounce more than nine the penalty is 3%. Ray Hanson's penalties were heavy and Fred Stanek was declared the winner. He had husked a net load of 2,123.8 Ib., 30.34 bu. of grain...
...moved there from Delaware (his father, Antoine Bidermann, his uncle Alfred Victor du Pont left because "there wasn't room in the powder business at the time for all the family"), he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was an able athlete (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ib. at the age of 19). Beginning as a miner in Kentucky, he rose to be president and manager of several coal, iron & steel companies (among them Johnson Co., which became Lorain Steel Co., now a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp.). Later he developed many street railway lines. Having acquired...