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...Glamor Horse of last year's juveniles, who was not permitted to make a public appearance so early in the season, practically all the top-crust three-year-olds were in the parade to the post. Favorite was Airman William Boeing's Porter's Mite, the handsome bay colt who outshone all his contemporaries in the classic Belmont Futurity last autumn. Almost as popular was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Impound, son of famed Sun Beau, who beat Porter's Mite in a short handicap race at Santa Anita two weeks before. The twelve others, proudly...
...about the size of a pellet of buckshot, holding aloft a five pound flatiron. The magnet weighs about one-sixteenth of an ounce. The maximum ratio of lifted load to magnet weight is 1,500 to i, highest in the annals of engineering. Thus General Electric's mighty mite is the most powerful permanent magnet on record...
Last week total bank reserves were at an all-time high of $8,727,000,000, excess reserves only a mite below the 1935 peak of $3,300,000,000. For the first time in history banks are holding more cash than their total outstanding loans. In 1933 cash holdings were 48% of total loans; today they are 114%. This money, sitting idle, earning no return, has caused a drop in bank income from $556,514,000 for Federal Reserve members...
...Airman William E. Boeing's Porter's Mite: the $70,000 Belmont Futurity, world's richest race for two-year-old thoroughbreds; defeating George Widener's Eight Thirty by a nose; at Belmont Park...
...dictator trying to run things on a strictly authoritarian basis, the devastating technique of Popeye the Sailor-man in dealing with bulldozers is bound to be disturbing. Last week in Berlin Nazi censors decided Popeye's spinachy vigor was getting a mite too rich for Aryan blood, banned one of his latest cinema cartoons, Popeye's Parrot...