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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fields, between its teeming towns, over and around its coal-laden mountains criss-cross some 57,000 miles of trackage (one-fifth of the nation's total) valued at ten billion dollars (almost one-half the nation's total). Three hundred lines, long & short, in this area serve 52 million people, bind together eight of the ten largest U. S. cities, with shiny roadways to the sea and world markets. For generations this empire has been a battleground wherein corporate giants fought for dominance by fair means and foul. To it last week came a truce, perhaps permanent peace, when...
...third of normal. Naturalist Van Campen Heilner figured the cost of the shortened season at $60,000,000. Wildfowl shooting normally is a $100,000,000-a-year industry, the money going for guides, guns, shells, food, clothing, transportation, grain, etc., etc.?about $50 from each of two million shooters. Furthermore, millions of dollars are spent on preserves: near Sandusky, Ohio $3,000,000 was spent for dikes alone; at Currituck Sound, N. C., Tycoons William Ellis Corey (steel) and Joseph Palmer Knapp (American Lithographic Co.) put up $500,000 for canal locks. Such investments provided a potent argument...
Last fortnight Father Cox visited the Vatican. Before leaving Rome, with the Vatican as his sounding board, he told the editor of Il Tevere in an interview that he would poll 17 million votes among the U. S. unemployed, not to speak of the ex-service men. Father Cox invited Il Tevere's editor to lunch with him in the White House some time after...
...went to Europe, won a million dollars at Monte Carlo and saw the Folies Bergere. The first Ziegfeld Follies appeared in 1907-08. Critic Percy Hammond called it "a loud & leering orgy of indelicacy & suggestiveness." Subsequent Follies helped to make Ziegfeld a millionaire, "glorified" a succession of beautiful women,* including Justine Johnstone, Olive Thomas, Marilyn Miller (he called hers "the most beautiful form in the world"), Yvonne Taylor ("she wore the most beautiful tights"), Mae Murray, Lilyan Tashman, Ina Claire, Billie Dove, Mary Hay, Nita Naldi, Marion Davies, Peggy Hopkins Joyce. He was responsible for the fame of Will Rogers...
...Lake Michigan's wave-rimmed shore, were so expensive that many persons would be glad to call them "home." But to Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick the move was a heartbreaking acquiescence to the condition she always speaks of as "the change." Once worth 40, 50, perhaps 60 million dollars, last week in her 60th year she found her tremendous fortune largely vanished...