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Twenty-seven years ago, aged 12, Generoso Pope had a job in Manhattan painting pianos at $3 a week. He had come to the land of opportunity from Italy. Twenty years later successful Mr. Pope owned Colonial Sand & Stone Co. which he believes is now the world's largest. Then he started buying up New York's Italian-language daily and Sunday newspapers. First he bought Il Progresso...
...feathers from his mate are known as Feminas and Greys. Tail feathers are Boos. A prime bird will yield about 20 oz. of feathers at each clipping. When not being clipped he is apt to roam about, find sport (not supposed escape from danger) in burrowing his head into sand and pebbles. Generations and generations of ostriches have passed on the information that pebbles are essential to their digestion. When approached or frightened during such relaxation he will make off at great speed. Most of the feathers now being used are from the harvest of bygone years, for the feathers...
Purchased were 8,000 acres of barren sand dunes. On March 12, 1906 surveyors drove their first stakes among the tumbleweeds for U. S. Steel's fiat city. Streets were laid out, houses built, water and gas mains sunk. Top soil was brought in to spread over the sand, to grow trees and grass in. Great scoopers chewed a mile-long harbor back from Lake Michigan. Railroad connections were made. Against the sky began to rise the jagged outlines of steel mills, foundries, tin-plate plants. Within a year $100,000,000 was dumped into this desolate Indiana waste...
...Tige's jaws were clamped bulldoggedly; he soared aloft. Valiantly, for five minutes, he clawed space and the yielding rope for a foothold. At 400 ft. of altitude, his jaws relaxed and he plunged downward, spinning, and smashed his life out in a forest of scrub pine and sand...
...sigh to count the last few grains of sand...