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Drops of water trickling down a wooded hillside swell to a runnel, a rivulet, a brook, a creek, join the great feeder streams and then the long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi...
...farm near Ausable Forks, N. Y., Artist Kent was surprised to hear of all the fuss. "I think it's a swell thing when people want independence and I think it's the most American thing one can do to wish them luck," said he. "In Puerto Rico a large part of the population is asking for at least the right to a plebiscite. It seems to me as an American that, speaking through the pen of the Eskimos, if the people of Puerto Rico want to be free, God bless them...
...tenders and excursion boats followed in their wake and thousands of spectators watched from the shore what has become the harbor's native sporting event, the Conte di Savoia's long-keeled boat paced the W. C. Teagle's two nautical miles over the grey harbor swell, came in in 22 min. 2 sec. As coxswain, the Conte di Savoia's First Officer Pietro Passano joyously received the kisses of his crew, then for good measure kissed the cup he got from the hands of Chairman Kennedy. The eight oarsmen each got an individual silver...
...terminus lags far behind Boise's (Idaho) 8,800-ft. runway; Berlin's 14-minute convenience from Templehof to downtown and London's new Lullingstone Airport's area-700 acres. But none of these has New York's seaplane facilities which might swell the total of all air passengers into New York to 1,000,000 a year instead of the 300,000 that now pass through Newark. Referring to North Beach Airport's completion-its start happily coincides with Fiorello LaGuardia's campaign for re-election-the Mayor of New York, with...
...lexicon of permissible slang Mrs. Post, who was once heard to describe a table layout as "lousy," adds such expressions as "O.K.." "swell," "divine," "and how!" "so what?" "you betcha." But she never hears "colyum," "ottawobile," "eggsit," "tomayto," "cult-your" (which she pronounces "cultcha")* in good society. Her pet hate: pretentious circumlocutions such as "permit me to assist you" instead of "let me help...