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Meanwhile, in Washington, D. C., last week the French Embassy permitted itself to be vexed. Its legal, semi-annual shipment of whiskey, gin, wines and champagne had arrived with all the diplomatic seals broken and with one-fourth of the consignment missing...
...Wilhelmina of The Netherlands: "I do not read the U. S. newspapers, but if I did, last week I might have seen a little story which would have amused me. It was to the effect that the International Acceptance Bank of Manhattan was sending to the Straits Settlements a shipment of $600,000 in gold coins. Reason: the natives of this British Possession who carry on Dutch traditions, believe the head of the Goddess of Liberty to be a representation of my own head, and consequently suitable for wedding presents...
...years ago, its forefathers appeared on the American continent, probably arriving in a shipment of broomcorn from southeastern Europe to a Canadian broom factory. After a few years of glutting themselves, they practically wiped out Canada's corn crop. Then a hearty band of pilgrims was tossed about, until they set foot in the U. S. Instinctively, they moved westward toward the promised land. The moth flies at the rate of 150 miles a season; the worm nibbles the corn, does the damage. During the last two years, they have been reported in Indiana and many another state...
...chief iron-ore-producing region of the United States, moreover, is north and west of Lake Superior; and shipment is made from the northern shore in much greater volume than "from the lake's southern shores...
...Gimbel and Mrs. Louis Gimbel of Manhattan (Gimbel's Department Store). Rising from messenger boy he acquired a fortune estimated as between 5,000,000 and $20,000,000; purchased by degrees the largest collection of Rodin statues known (245 pieces), of which he secured 98 in one shipment (TIME...