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Investigations outside Washington are generally arranged as vacation trips. A ten-day wild life survey by three Senators (Nevada's Pittman, Connecticut's Walcott, Missouri's Hawes) with their salaried assistants cost $1,983,67. Among the itemized expenses were: motorboat hire, $60; mineral water, $31; Minnesota fishing licenses, $22; one spoon hook, $1.25; three sinkers, 15¢; can of minnows, 75?...
...monarchists were arrested. The Marquis de Festival, at whose Seville house General Sanjurjo made his headquarters, was chased toward Gibraltar by Civil Guards. As the pursuers' car drew up alongside his car he jammed on the brakes, jumped out, waded into the Strait and began swimming. Later a motorboat picked him up, still swimming toward Africa. In Seville mobs burned monarchists' homes, freed Communists and Syndicalists from jail, mobbed royalist newspaper offices. As prisoners left the jail, others- participants in the revolt-went in. Republican demonstrations were staged in Cordoba, Valencia, Santander, Barcelona. In Madrid the conservative papers...
...peak of 31.000 in 1929, a figure representing more than half the industry's output. The company now makes five sizes of outboard motors, ranging from the 1½-h.p. single cylinder motor to the 4-cyl., 32-h.p., 116-Ib. Johnson Sea Horse. During the last two years motorboat sales have dropped badly. Last week it was no surprise when the smooth drone of Johnson Motor Co.'s affairs was broken, the firm sputtered, coughed, lapsed into receivership...
Funnyman Ed Wynn's son Frank ran aground his father's motorboat. All Wet, in the East River within sight of his Manhattan apartment; tooted his siren for two hours until police rescued...
...Charles Cabot, New Haven, Conn, garageman: the Albany-to-New York outboard motorboat race (132¼ mi.) in 2 hr. 56 min. 39 sec., a record...