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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Normandie, world's largest ship, away from St. Nazaire where she was built, hardy Bretons have dredged out of the harbor a special channel six miles long, made more exciting by five unavoidably sharp curves. Last week the completed Normandie, drawing 40 ft. of water and with the French Line Chairman Marcel Olivier aboard, was shoved off by ten frantically churning tugs while Bretons, gathered from miles around, cheered and whooped in the rain. Hardly had the Normandie cleared the first buoy when driving mists shut her out of sight from shore. Most ticklish moment came when...
...Commerce. It employs about 600 clerks in addition to 700 examiners who must hold engineering degrees to be permitted to take the entrance examination, law degrees to be promoted after reaching a certain grade. The bureau has taken in $8,000,000 more than it has spent, pays the largest printing bill of any Government bureau, trains patent lawyers, stays constantly behind in its work, resists the onslaught of its critics, continues to grant more & more patents. Seven hundred thousand patents are now in force...
Frank Erickson, onetime waiter, is now the largest commissioner in the U. S. His business-derived mostly from agents in cigar stores, poolrooms and newsstands along the Eastern seaboard-is backed by about $4,000,000. When he goes to Belmont Park, he sits in the clubhouse among socialites who patronize the betting-shed bookmakers-of whom Frank Erickson finances four. Trusted implicitly by his enormous clientele, Bookmaker Erickson was reported to have lost $150,000 last summer, mostly at a Saratoga meeting which put many of his less substantial rivals out of business...
...John Pesek, heavyweight wrestler of Ravenna, Neb. Since then he has won the Waterloo twice. Calm and well-mannered in the paddock, he has unsurpassed speed in the field, turns quickly, keeps his eyes on the rabbit, dives beautifully for the kill. Owner Pesek. who boasts the largest greyhound kennels (200 couple) and one of the finest pairs of cauliflower ears in the U. S., has refused $10,000 for Gangster...
...President Sibley is a miner, a lumberman and a grand-scale farmer. He likes to work with the laborers on his 4,000-acre ranch at Santa Rita. Calif., or on his 350-acre farm at Sibleyville, near Rochester. In Illinois, where he is the State's largest individual land owner, he owns the biggest corn farm in the world, and his AAA checks for crop reductions run to fat figures...