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...freighter Havelland into Manzanillo on the west coast of Mexico where she evidently intended to pick up gas and oil supplies. Same day the German tanker Emmy Friederich slid out of Tampico on Mexico's other coast, carrying 39,500 barrels of oil and a lot of livestock, lumber and cloth. She said she was bound for Malmö, Sweden, but observers guessed she had a U-boat rendezvous...
...hours a week. He built KFKA a new transmitter, which the now booming station has nearly paid for. In Hoover Park, around his auction arena, he has his own studio, the 300-foot transmitter tower outlined with red neon lights. In the park are cattle pens, a Buzz Hoover lumber yard, garages, stores, tourist cottages. On auction days, when the radio-beckoned crowds turn out in droves, Buzz wears a slick cowboy outfit and so do Claude and Esther. His roustabouts wear natty, filling-station-style uniforms with cowboy hats, clown around on bucking steers between sales. Buzz himself...
...importance of the Poles in the U. S. is still fairly minor. Immigrants settled on farms in New England, Pennsylvania, Texas, the North Central States, went into factories, crawled into mines, swaggered into the Pacific lumber camps,' poured their sweat and labor into the expanding machinery of U. S. industry, sent their brawny children to college, where their names have recently emerged as problems to football cheering sections...
...failed, saw his dream of consolidation in God's country go up in smoke. Last year N. P. had a whopping $4,300,000 deficit; G. N. a piddling (for her) $2,700,000 profit. Today there is no talk of consolidating the twin grain, iron ore, lumber hauling roads that serve much the same territory. Maybe the arrival of new heads Denney and Gavin will revive...
Expenditures: Nails, 70? ; postage, 39?; work on street and bridge, $10.75; lumber, $10.10; election, $3.00; gravel, $39.40; hauling, $1.25; pump repair, $1.00; tax collector's commissions, $19.23; cash on hand, $129.30. Total...