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Rightist Spain: 126,583 sq. mi...
China. The first skull of Peking Man was found in 1929 in limestone caves at Choukoutien, 20 mi. from Peiping. This apish oldster is now generally conceded to be 1,000,000 years old, most ancient of known human fossils. Last summer, two days before Sino-Japanese fighting broke out in north China, a native workman employed by the Rockefeller-endowed diggers at Choukoutien turned up an upper jawbone of Peking Man, containing six teeth. This was the first upper jawbone, although several skulls and lower jawbones had been found before. The new find was got safely to a museum...
What Franklin Roosevelt saw, as he drove in an open car along the pack-jammed waterfront, was part of the 16 mi. highway that shoots north along the sandy shore past the 1933 Fairsite, Soldier Field, Field Museum and Grant Park, juts first right then left and north again to cross the Chicago River and the Ogden Slip with the Tribune Tower looming high on the left,* keeps on to wind around swank Gold Coast's apartments and the Drake Hotel, then north once more on the express highway of Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River...
...Statue of Liberty were laid in a coffin and floated in New York Harbor, it would be lighter and no simpler to maneuver than a timber-lagged steel tank which this week started on a 1,371-mi. trip from Jersey City, N. J. to Whiting, Ind., at the foot of Lake Michigan. There it will be stood on one end, and, towering Soft., will serve as a low pressure evaporator tower for distilling crude oil for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana ("Stanolind"). Construction and delivery of the tank was accompanied by a great shattering of records...
...tank from the flatcars to the river, where she floated half submerged. Carpenters lagged her with 14-in. timbers to protect her from bumps. A tug lashed on to a 400-ft. hawser, and at 6-m.p.h. started a three-week tow up the Hudson to Troy (142-mi.), through New York's Barge Canal to Oswego on Lake Ontario (184-mi.), and 1,045 more miles through Lake Ontario, the Welland Canal, Lake Erie, St. Clair River, Lake Huron, the Straits of Mackinac, then due south through Lake Michigan to Whiting. By Halloween, Mr. Kellogg expected to deliver...