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Last week, in Southampton, L. I., Andrew William Mellon, long one of his country's richest men, Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932, died of uremia, broncho-pneumonia...
American Export Lines is a sturdy little concern whose sturdy little boats (none bigger than 9,350 tons) carry about a third of the freight (not including grain) between the U. S. and the Mediterranean. This is the second richest trade route in the North Atlantic, and American Export has no U. S. competitors for it. Hence it is in a better position than many other U. S. lines, made $643.000 last year with the aid of a Government subsidy of $1,479,000. Said Lawyer Kenneth Gardner who pleaded for the new airline before the House Post Office Committee...
...southwestern South Dakota knot of mountains called the Black Hills are the richest U. S. gold mines, the camp where President Coolidge said "I do not choose to run," the bowl-like mountain valley out of which Major Albert William Stevens sailed his stratosphere balloon in 1935, the outstanding granite mountain whose top Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is blasting into the shape of Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's and Roosevelt's heads, the Wind Cave National Monument whose ten underground square miles have never been well explored, and the Fossil Cycad National Monument whose 360 acres...
...Richest Saratoga stake is the Hopeful ($25,000 guaranteed). Of recent years, newer tracks have made a practice of publicizing themselves and attracting famous thoroughbreds by posting immense added prizes for handicaps. The three-year-old Santa Anita (Calif.) track currently gives the biggest, $100,000. Suffolk Downs (Mass.) and Narragansett Park (R. I.), both comparatively new plants, plan equal purses next season. To make sure that great horses will enter these races, handicappers at new tracks narrow the limits of weights imposed on the entries, so that a very good horse need not carry much more poundage than...
...into the mining business. Preferring to loan money personally rather than trust the banks. Meyer put up $25,000 with a speculating Quaker named Charles Graham, who for $4,000 had bought a water-filled, 70-ft. silver mine in Leadville, Colo. It turned out to be the richest mine in the Rockies. The only Jew in turbulent Leadville, Meyer, now past 50, decided to build his own smelter because he was annoyed with smelter fees. Said a superintendent of the first Guggenheim smelter: "Wherever I turned there was a Guggy in my way. I feel nagged now every time...