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...Europe's war fever does not rise again, June 7 will be historic. Shortly before midnight that day, on a train rolling over the international bridge below Niagara Falls, a King of England will enter the U. S. for the first time. For U. S. detectives, a day last week was historic. In the U. S. for the first time arrived the chief detective of Scotland Yard on active duty...
...with savory local color, Democracy in the Making makes the Jackson-Tyler era seem closer at hand than the Harding administration. Typical nugget of unfamiliar information: In 1837, during the Canadian rebellion. Englishmen seized the U. S.-owned Caroline on Lake Erie, killed the crew, sent the ship over Niagara Falls...
...serpents a sonnettes. . . " At the end of the Revolution, Lafayette cries: "C'est la victoire . . . l'alliance entre les Etats Unis et la France a triomphe!" Last program is a grand roundup of U. S. noises, including the roar of "les chutes du Niagara" birds twittering, a bear's grunt. Coney Island's tinkles and cries, the voice of Monsieur Thomas Dewey...
...world's highest: 727 ft.), only 700 ft. shorter at the crest than Grand Coulee (world's longest: 4.200 ft.). World's No. 2 Dam in these respects, it will be No. 1 for the height of its overflow: 480 ft., or thrice the fall of Niagara...
...Alcoa got ownership of both patents around the turn of the century; then, realizing that when the patents expired it would no longer have its monopoly, began buying up power, tremendous amounts of which are needed in making aluminum. A sample arrangement, according to Lawyer Rice, was that with Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power & Manufacturing Co. by which it agreed not to sell power to anyone making aluminum except Alcoa; cryolite, too, is needed and Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. had a monopoly there, so Alcoa made a contract with Pennsylvania Salt...