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...Texas R. R.'s five-span bridge across the Missouri River at Boonville, Mo., including a 408-ft. lift span, world's longest, which can be raised vertically to give clearance to river traffic, 11) The world's biggest all-welded bridge, 161 ft. long at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, over the Skoda Works' railroad yards. The previous record-holder was the 134-ft. bridge at Chicopee Falls, Mass...
...Pilsen, a brewery proprietor drowned himself in a vat of beer. On the vat he had chalked a statement that he died for shame because consumption of his beer had decreased more than 125 gal. during the year. He wrote also to his former customers, threatening to haunt them for their disloyalty...
...Medical examiners found him "organically in good condition." He settled down to take the cure for two or three weeks, reduced his cigarets to two per day, cut out veal. It rained steadily. He stood the discipline for five days, then set out again on his gay travels. At Pilsen he inspected the brewery, emptied a row of steins in less than two minutes, begged someone to push him into a foamy vat. A delegation of actors met and praised him at Prague. An enthusiastic Czech presented him with a wire-haired fox terrier. When he reached Budapest he complained...
Just 100 years ago a babe with an enormous head and wide, staring eyes was born at the Chateau de Blowitz, near Pilsen, Bohemia. Half a century later one Henri Stephan de Blowitz, jack of all trades, paunchy ne'er-do-well, sought the Paris office of the famed London Times and audaciously asked for a job, although he admitted that he had never written a line of news in all his wastrel life...
Pilsner beer is still manufactured at Pilsen, which, since it became a Czecho-Slovakian city, spells its name Plzen. Certain German patriots urged a boycott of the famed Bohemian beer, pointing out that the breweries were forced to donate part of their profits to CzechoSlovakian schools in which German children are forced to learn Czech. They also reminded German "beer-swuzzlers" that there was plenty of good German beer with which to "swuzzle," and that Czechs never "swuzzled" with any but their own beer...