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From Lawrenceville, N. J. to Buenos Aires is 5,300 miles. Not many people in Lawrenceville have frequent occasion to telephone to Buenos Aires, though Thornton Niven Wilder, who teaches school there, might have liked to telephone Peru while writing The Bridge of San Luis Key. Nevertheless, the telephone operators of Lawrenceville may expect many a call for Buenos Aires to go through before long. Arrangements were made last week for International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook its telephone-subscribers to its short wave radio station at Buenos Aires and for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook U. S. telephone...
Last week famed Remington Rand Inc., alert typewriter folk of Buffalo, shipped to far-away Angora 3,000 specially made, 31-key, 100% Turkish typewriters. "To build them we had to construct entirely new dies," said Remington Rand's foreign sales director John A. Zellers. "That was what sent the total cost of this shipment up to $400,000" ($133.33 per typewriter...
...What do you think of the future of the talkies?" his answer was emphatic: "Without great improvements people will tire of them. Talking is no substitute for good acting we had in silent pictures." Then, to another query, he gave ambition, imagination, and the will to work as the key to success...
...would postpone construction of three cruisers (see p. 12). Throughout Britain these quick-stepping developments met with such widespread enthusiasm that even the Conservative Daily Telegraph observed: "All parties must hope that Mr. MacDonald's optimism is justified and wish him well in his further negotiations." Key points in the MacDonald speech: Parity: The Prime Minister said that he and General Dawes "have agreed upon the principle of parity"-that is to say when the U. S. and British fleets have been scaled down they must be of equal strength. A similar agreement existed in theory between the Coolidge...
...indicated last week by designating both Ford Airport at Dearborn and Grosse Isle Airport near Detroit 15 miles apart. A third gateway for foreign air commerce named last week is Newport, Vt. Thus there are 13 airports of entry in the U. S. - last week's three and Key West, Miami, St. Paul, Albany, San Juan, Seattle, Lake Union (near Seattle), Newark (N. J.), San Diego, Los Angeles (all ports under Los Angeles jurisdiction...