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...room, copper-roofed "cabin" (cost: $100,000) at the Huron Mountain Club in the wilds of northern Michigan on Lake Superior. Son Edsel was taking his ease at Seal Harbor, Maine. One day the elder Ford was driven in one of his V-8's 35 mi. to Marquette to telephone Edsel. He put the call through from a private room at the Northland Hotel. As he ambled out, newshawks swooped down on him to ask about the Blue Eagle...
Large allotments of the last month included $14,153,108 to re-employ 8,000 men making a 6-ft. channel in the Missouri River for 387 mi. from Kansas City up to Sioux City; $63,000,000 for a hydroelectric dam on the Columbia River at Grand Coulee; $22,700,000 for a reclamation project near Casper, Wyo.; $11,500,000 for dredging a 9-ft. channel in the upper Mississippi...
Senator Sheppard did all in his power to stay the humming bird's flight. He spent nearly a month stumping Texas against Repeal. He traveled 5,000 mi. in a Ford truck on which was loaded a pulpit and loud speaker. From behind this breastwork he addressed 45,000 persons on 48 occasions. Each time he spoke for about an hour, requiring no cough drops, no throat spray. His speeches were mostly prayerful rehashes of the address he has delivered in the Senate every Jan. 16 to commemorate Prohibition's birthday. Over & over he cried: "The millionaires want...
Germany's rebuttal was to hold two monster Nazi demonstrations, one near the Polish border on the battlefield of Tannenberg, the other near the French border at quiet little Rudesheim on the Rhine. By roaring 600 mi. across Germany in a fast plane. Handsome Adolf was able to appear and speak at both. At Tannenberg he presented to Old Paul von Hindenburg a tract of land adjacent to his Neudeck home; at Rudesheim he whooped it up for the Saar plebiscite of 1935 which may return the Saar Basin to Germany...
...Koch's expedition, operating from the sturdy little baseship Gustav Holm, anchored just under the 80th parallel, has been exploring northern Greenland by air for two years. Two nights on the same day last week brought the total distance covered up to more than 25,000 mi. without one mishap. The other flight was westward, over the Northeast Foreland lip to Peary Land. It discovered that a mountain range beginning at a deepcut mouth, Denmark Fjord, runs out on the lip. Skimming over vast desolate plains lying between this range and the great inland mountain chain. Dr. Koch concluded...