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Laggard, The DO-X, largest flying boat, last week resumed her laggard nine-month journey from Switzerland. Proceeding by easy stages from Belem, Brazil, where two motors had been replaced, she paused at San Juan to pick up a passenger. He was George Washington Grouse. Syracuse, N.Y. grocer, onetime passenger on the Graf Zeppelin. So eager was he to extend his accomplishments that he had waited two weeks for the arrival of the DO-X. After a stop at Cuba, the DO-X settled comfortably at Miami. Riding at anchor in Biscayne Bay, she was inspected by hordes of curious...
...emerged from jail, having served a nine-month term for a minor offense (gun-carrying), and though widely publicized manage to remain at large...
...year Merrill, Lynch & Co. sold their branch offices to E. A. Pierce & Co., became specialists in chain stores. Last week they compiled the results of 52 chain store companies for last month and for the first nine months of the year. During September total sales were $310,535,660, a 4.16% decline. For all 52 chains, nine month sales came to $2,904,181,652, a 1.65 gain. Nine-month returns for the biggest 23 were...
...number of prisoners in U. S. penitentiaries and reformatories increased 1,993 in this nine-month period, of which 1,811 were Prohibition Law violators. C. Other increases: Harrison Narcotic Act, 6; Dyer Motor Theft Act, 164; Miscellaneous...
...colleges are headed for hell and damnation because the stadiums are packed on autumn Saturday afternoons. In the first place, the only sport about which the undergraduate, at least at Harvard, is even inclined to be irrational, is football, and football extends through about two months of the nine-month college year. Perhaps those alarmists will concede the possibility of a little study being accomplished by the undergraduates in the remaining seven months of the year...