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Because it is full of salt, the Alpine town that grew up around the oldest abbey in Austria was called Salzburg. In the Middle Ages Salzburg was nicknamed the German Rome, and thousands of pilgrims flocked to the tremendous pageants which Princes of the Church put on there every year. In 1842 Salzburg held its first music festivals in honor of Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburg's most famous son. Later Mozart festivals were meagrely attended, poor things after the city's golden past. Hardly anybody visited Salzburg except hunters and fishers who climbed up to buy wine...
...bags, sales $35,000,000. It takes about 1⅓ yds. of burlap to make one average sack, and nothing is better or as cheap for sacking grain, flour, feed, potatoes, rice, nuts, wool, ore, coffee, spices, cottonseed meal. Largest U. S. sack company is Bemis Bro. of Boston. Oldest and second largest is Chase Bag Co. of New York...
...found in restraint of trade, its control of the two railroads was disestablished. Last week, with 23,063 shares of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and 28,557 shares of Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co. Ltd. in its portfolio, Northern Securities board of directors proposed that the oldest railroad holding company be dissolved...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology read a paper on the ages of iron meteorites. Ages are measured in the same way as those of terrestrial rocks; by the amount of decomposition of radioactive material. "A very young iron meteorite," said Dr. Urry, "is 100,000,000 years old. The oldest is 2,900,000,000 years old." The last figure is just within the upper limit commonly given by geologists for the age of the earth and the solar system. Dr. Urry believes that iron meteorites are the debris of planets which have broken up within the last...
...professional golfer begins his career at the age of 26, earns $2,800 a year and expects to retire at 55. This pertinent information was brought to light last week by Fidelity Investment Association of Wheeling, W. Va., which queried 3,500 professionals. The youngest was 19, the oldest 66. The richest has reaped an average of $11,500 yearly, the poorest $1,068. Less successful as investors than as breadwinners, the golfers reported they had lost $11,000,000, or over $3,000 per man. Three out of four readily admitted that financial worries hurt their game...