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...Yacht Club) put up a golden nautilus shell, no larger than a lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began to build six-meter boats (almost one-fourth the length of America's Cup yachts), found them fun to maneuver and comparatively inexpensive to maintain (about $3,000 a year in addition to some $8,000 initial outlay). Within four years there were enough good six-meter sailors in the U. S. to send a representative...
Highest Paid managing editor in the U. S. is the News's Harvey Deuell, who last year drew a salary of $140,000. The managing editor of the News has to com press into one-fourth as much space enough news to keep the paper competitive with the bulky Times and Herald Tribune. News stories, unlike conventional newspaper stories, start at the beginning, move with swift narrative pace to the end. Big, shaggy Harvey Deuell learned this trick while on the city desk of the News, where he used to rewrite nearly every important story. He had a scientist...
...surplus profits to the Clinic and the University of Minnesota. In 1915 they founded a graduate school in connection with the University of Minnesota. Shrewd, dignified Dr. Will, now 77 and recovering in Rochester from a gastric ulcer operation, has managed finances with an eagle eye. Poor patients (approximately one-fourth of the Mayo practice) pay nothing, sometimes get checks instead of bills. Rich patients pay huge sums, computed from their rating in national credit agencies...
...roof of a Norman castle, where once the Canada of long ago had its seat of Government, the King and Queen had dined [from the breasts of 2,000 snowbirds]. . . . The wine glasses were filled and Lieutenant-Governor Patenaude stood to propose the age-old toast, heard nightly across one-fourth the globe: 'Gentlemen, the King.' . . . From some far corner of that spacious ballroom a strong male voice sounded, rich and true...
...funneled off by Government command into industrially sterile armaments and showy public monuments. Before the War only 5% of the national income was spent on armaments-and that was a time when Colonel House was reporting that Berlin presented a spectacle of "militarism run stark mad." Today one-fourth of the national income goes for guns, fortresses and stadia for the self-glorification of Nazi party meetings...