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From the House, however, a swarm of Representatives turned up, many with their eager wives and ecstatic children. After three trips, a valve failed in the big Fokker. Lobbyist Lindbergh changed to a Douglass transport plane and for three days continued his practical propagandizing...
Celebrities follow bright rainbows to pots of shining gold. The U. S. pot is most golden. Therefore choicest celebrities from overseas swarm into it, simmer, exude the essences of genius. Last week the pot seemed brimming full. Choice dumplings were...
...Exchange after long hesitation decided to admit trading in foreign stocks. The chief restrictions were that such stocks and securities have first rights to their company dividends and that those dividends be regular. There was a flourish of expectations among Manhattan stock brokers. They thought that foreign concerns would swarm to list their stocks. However, foreign investors are amply able to buy their own sound securities. So last week the stock of only one outlander company, the Austrian Credit Anstalz, stood on the Manhattan Exchanges' list, and only one other, the Trading Company of Amsterdam, had even applied...
...interim, while the United States and Europe devoted themselves to a fad of things Russian, such as the Chauve Souris, the former dominions of the Czar have been the scene of events of a more serious nature. That Moscow faces the approach of winter with a thieving, lawless swarm of two hundred and fifty thousand homeless children--the "wild boys", the products of war and revolution--is a fact worthy of more than pictorial reproductions in the Sunday papers...
...swarm of airplanes rose boisterously over Roosevelt Field, L. L, and buzzed westward in quest of $5,000. They were small, light Class B land planes of the commercial type, flying for a money prize in a transcontinental race to Spokane, Wash. Twenty-five started; that night pilots of twelve went to bed in Chicago; the first official stopping place. Thick, drizzly weather and brutally bumpy air over the Alleghenies stirred pilots to call it the most dangerous hop they had ever made. Over half of the planes came down short of the stopping point owing to weather, engine...