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...World's largest bell, which cracked in casting and hence is untuned, is Russia's Tsar Kolokol (Tsar of Bells), made in 1733, 19 ft. high and weighing...
...always-melodious tones when struck by their clappers. In carillons, the biggest and the smallest bells are the trickiest to cast and tune. Ranked according to the size of their big bass bells, the world's best carillons, all made in England, are all in North America, the largest being the 72-bell carillon of Manhattan's Rockefeller-built Riverside Church, whose 20-ton bass bell is the largest tuned bell extant.* Others: the 72 bells of the University of Chicago Chapel; the Baird Carillon at the University of Michigan; the Bok Carillon in Mountain Lake...
...leading drivers appearing on a mushrooming series of Midwest tracks. Madison Square Garden, prime barometer for new U. S. sporting crazes, held its first doodlebug race in its outdoor bowl last year. A midget race in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium last summer drew 53,000 customers, largest professional sport gate that city had enjoyed since the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1926. Today there are profitable tracks in scores of U. S. cities, fly-by-night ventures in a hundred more. The sport has been roughly organized into Midwest, Pacific and Atlantic associations, but as yet has no national championship...
...provide the huge farming class with such extensive buying power that all commerce benefits. How bumper are crops was last week summarized by revised estimates of the Department of Agriculture, indicating that total value for three major crops of corn, wheat and cotton will be $4,500,000,000, largest since 1930. Total farm income from the sale of all crops plus payments by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration will total up to nearly $9,000,000,000. largest since 1929's $10,479,000,000, and more than a billion greater than last year. Though bears suggested that most...
Wheat. With a crop now estimated at 885,950,000 bu., largest since 1931, and last week's price of $1.05 a bu., the U. S. wheat crop is worth about $1,000,000,000. Wheat has already been harvested, so the department estimate is pretty sure to be right. Including last year's 90,000,000-bu. carryover, wheat on hand amounts to 975,950,000 bu. of which some 775,000,000 bu. will be needed in the U. S. With 200,000,000 bu. more to dispose of, the U. S. may become an important...