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...Indian who discovered the mine back in 1826 got $1.50 and a pouch of tobacco for his pains. The State of New York got 10? an acre for the land. Even so, for 116 years it was a bad investment. The mine went through the wringer many times, closed down in 1914. One trouble was the cost of getting rid of the titanium in the ore, for nobody wanted titanium then...
...first time in their 51-year history, the Daughters of the American Revolution have been shooed out of Washington. Because of wartime congestion in the capital (where they own their own hall), they will have to meet in Chicago. Into Chicago last week marched President General Mrs. William H. Pouch, to prepare the way for some 3,500 DARters who will assemble next month. She outlined convention plans: i) to lambaste Union Now, and foreign-language schools; 2) to praise the work of "that great American, Martin Dies." Said buxom Mrs. Pouch: "Mr. Dies can never be discredited...
...that night, from the White House, came a wry admission. The President had indeed written such a letter, had sent it in the diplomatic pouch to U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt in Moscow. Ambassador Steinhardt gave it to Averell Harriman, who gave it to Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin...
...jumping as in tiddlywinks. A set costs $12.50. There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron...
...obstacles to small-town air mail: expense of landing fields, loss of time and money making stops. Du Font's idea: land only when necessary, otherwise swoop low over clearings at 100 m.p.h., simultaneously drop incoming mail, pick up outgoing letters and packages by snagging a pouch hung on a 50-foot cable between two 40-foot poles...