Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Commodore Marries. There is a theory, generally despised, that reality has nothing to do with bread and butter, and that if a man calls his house a ship and gets up in the night to reef his unreal sails against a storm he may still be less mad than...
The Army's best flyer and the Guggenheim Fund's safety experimenter, James Harold Doolittle, flew the wings off a plane in which he was practicing inverted dives. He jumped safely with a parachute, and at once put a duplicate plane through the same stunts.
News that last week pleased many Norwegians was annoying to two groups of U. S. manufacturers, the producers of vegetable and animal oils. With whale oil in direct competition and a lower tariff on it threatened, U. S. fine-oil men heard that sailing for the Antarctic on Norway's...
Prosperous, popular investments are the larger Norwegian whaling companies. Last season three of the big ones reported combined profits of over $2,000,000, declared average dividends of 30%. Typical of the industry is the C. A. Larsen, biggest whaling boat (9,431 tons). Last year the C. A. Larsen...
To Culion. To lepers isolated for life or until cured on Culion, sombre Philippine island, were shipped last week from Brooklyn a lot of huge cans containing comedies, tragedies, newsreels, 778.000 feet of the best films made in the U. S. last year. No leper critic records the reactions of...