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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest manufacturing building in Europe is the so-called Hindenburg Hall of the Krupp Works at Essen, measuring 1,000 feet square. In it 7,000 men were employed during the War making artillery, today 3,500 fill it building locomotives. No women are allowed in the Krupp Works-not even the Duchess of Windsor...
...first American Zither Congress was held in 1912 in Washington, Mo., home of the Franz Schwarzer Zither Co., largest U. S. zither makers. Young folk are apt to think the homely zither "corny." President Leonard Zapf, Philadelphia music dealer and teacher, taught his son Karl Tom to play, heard him acclaimed a genius at the 1926 Congress. But Karl Tom deserted the zither, took to music teaching...
Equipoise went on to become one of the greatest thoroughbreds of all time and the second largest money-winner in history. Four years in a row C. V. Whitney - called "Sonny" in sports headlines to distinguish him from his equally horsy first cousin, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney - won more prize money than any other owner in the country. But maintaining a racing establishment is expensive business. In 1926, when Trainer Jimmy Rowe was complimented on a $407,139 Whitney season, Rowe said: "Yes, Mr. Whitney had a pretty good year. I don't think his stable cost him more...
...Philadelphia's Convention Hall this week waiters laid two miles of tablecloths, carried in 28,000 dishes. While thousands of University of Pennsylvania men ate 75 other simultaneous "worldwide dinners," the 4,000 diners in Philadelphia, one of the largest groups of people ever to sit down to table in one place, proceeded pensively to consume two tons of meat and drink and some food for thought. It was distressing to Penn men to be reminded that their university, which boasts nine firsts* and over 15,000 students, ranks sixteenth in U. S. university endowments.† To alter this...
...jailing had been for an unpaid judgment for slander, won by a man whom Father Richard had excommunicated for deserting his wife and remarrying another, Father Richard died in a cholera epidemic of 1832. He left a library of 3,000 volumes, then probably the Midwest's largest, and a number of letters for which his current biographers have hunted in vain...