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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kentucky Derby winner, has been the sensation of the 1939 racing season. Toasted as another Man o' War when he made all his contemporaries look like hobby horses early in the season, Big John, a homely colt with lop ears, upset the dopesters when he was beaten by William L. Brann's Challedon in the Preakness...
Less humble was Tobacco Millionheir Angier Biddle Duke, 23, who, arrested last June for speeding near Huntington, L. I. (his fourth offense in two months), was last week fined $250, had his driving license taken away from him. Duke angered a Long Island justice of the peace by forgetting just how many times he had been arrested and how big were fines he had paid...
Still hopeful, the engineers proceeded to the main experiment: a signal sent by remote control from a 100,000-watt transmitter 10 miles away at Hicksville, L. I., the antenna of which pointed toward Mars at an angle of 30°. By common consent, the "message" was a meaningless succession of dots and dashes. Astronomer Fisher and associates figured that if the signal traveled 36,030,000 miles and back at 186,000 mi. a second, the round trip would take 6 min. 28 sec. The key was tapped. For 6 min. 28 sec. everyone waited. Nothing happened. After...
Feeling pleased with himself about that, Newsboy Heckman next set about selling his papers, delivering himself thuswise: "They're scrapping the treaties! They'll scrap anything! But they CAIN'T scrap the LORD! He's here to stay! John L. Lewis shouldn't 'a' done it! Old Cactus Jack is all right! My Goodness! My Goodness...
...Reliable" has never been in receivership, has passed only one dividend on its common stock (1933) in the past 40 years. "Old Reliable's" president is peak-nosed, Cumberland Mountain-born James Brents Hill. Like his predecessors, he likes to keep his employes on the job in L. & N.'s constant drive for courteous, economical operation, sends out frequent "President's messages" to every worker on L. & N.'s 5,000 miles of track...