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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Rome, Benito Mussolini wielded a spade in heavy rain last week, planted three pines to mark the site of Italy's 1941 World exhibition on the road to Rome's seaport, Ostia. Work began at once on the exhibition's buildings which will be permanent, will become a new suburb of Rome after the show is over...
...apparent immediacy of transatlantic transport test flights, New York City last week finally bestirred itself to make ready for them. In Manhattan, the Sinking Fund Commission voted to acquire and improve North Beach Airport at a cost of some $8,000,000. On Flushing Bay, L. I., near the site of the coming World's Fair, it can be reached from midtown in 20 minutes over the new Triborough Bridge...
...hour. But Akragas is now only a shabby town: a few temples and the story remain. But still grow the almond trees which are in blossom now ond give a gay and youthful touch to the pillars of the temples; and still the acropolis, the ancient site of the town, looks down upon the Temples of Juno, Concord (one of the most beautiful of Greek Temples), Castor and Pollux, and the sea. But now let me tell you about the little Greek village I've been searching...
...opened barrooms in St. Louis' black belt with Brother Tom Jr. Three years he spent in California selling a mouse poison of his own invention. Back in St. Louis he was elected constable, and next turned his hand to running a cinemansion, the Booker T. Washington, the present site of St. Louis' massive Municipal Auditorium. Showman Turpin prospered, built the gaudy Jazzland dance hall where brother Tom thumped the piano. When Charles Turpin died of an insect bite in 1935, he left a $119,000 estate consisting chiefly of 700 shares of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. stock...
...Teterboro and took a three-year option on Teterboro Airport where he plans a $3,000,000 "aviation city" to manufacture present Bendix aviation products and develop new ones, such as blind landing systems, for which there is vital need. Some 500 men will soon start work on the site, 20 minutes from Manhattan across George Washington Bridge, constructing a factory, laboratory and foundry big enough for 2,500 workers. One device they will make when the plant is completed next winter and for which many airlines are eagerly waiting is Pan American Airway's famed Direction Finder system...