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...fear that last fortnight International Paper & Power Co. completed a 126-mile 220,000-volt transmission line made of aluminum wire, first important one of its kind in the U. S." I do not know your source of information for this statement but the statement as it stands is incorrect. Our records show that during the last ten years-the period of time in which 220,000-volt lines have been erected in this country-there have been 19 sales made for such lines. Sixteen of these have been sales of aluminum cable and three have been sales of copper...
...Court acquitted Herr Boess of "misdemeanor," censured him for "incorrect behavior," fined him one month's salary of 3,000 marks ($714). This left him free to retire last week ("because of poor health") and receive for life the handsome pension of a Berlin Ober-Bürgermeister (equivalent to "Lord Mayor"), namely: 30,000 marks ($7,140) a year...
...authorizing the construction of Boulder Dam, were the men who started and carried through the ten-year congressional fight which made possible Secretary Wilbur's Silver Spike ceremony. Your footnote saying Herbert Hoover got seven affected states "to sign a treaty agreeing to build the dam" is also incorrect. The treaty negotiated by Mr. Hoover, the Colorado River compact signed November, 1922, not 1921, contains no agreement whatever to build Boulder Dam or any other dam. It merely divides Colorado River water between the upper and lower basin states. Boulder Dam is an important happening for the Southwest...
...retraction" published by the Saturday Evening Post (issue of June 7) consisted of a letter from Sportsman White admitting he was technically incorrect in stating that all protection had been removed from Alaska's bears. He then analyzed what the "protection" amounted to: a closed season between June 20 and Sept. 1 on five small islands (not including large Kodiak, Admiralty, Chichagof and Baranof islands, the bears' principal homes) and on small sectors of the mainland...
...incorrect in this, I would like to hear from a scholar of Latin...