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...puffing yards constitute the railroad centre of the U.S. It holds the U.S. grain trade in its pits. Its stockyards are unmatched. In its grimy lap are a multitude of noisy industries (steel, cement, farm machinery, railroad supplies, foundry products, band instruments). Its mail order business reaches into the tiniest towns. In its convention halls more U.S. Presidents have been nominated than in any other city in the land. Its Negro population exceeds that of Kentucky. Above its enormous immigrant foundation is a socialite crust that knows wealth, culture, good living. It has opera, music, art, museums to offset...
...removal of 20 square inches of skin from his back failed to impair the health of its donor, who is still alive and in the best of condition. Also contained in the exhibit are "Galileo," the smallest book printed from movable type, and the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khaiyam," the tiniest volume ever printed. The latter, about half the size of a dime, was produced by a special photo-reducing process; the only other extant copy of it resides in the British Museum...
Smallest, Cheapest. It took Bert Hinkler 15½-days, cost him $250 to fly an 875-lb. Avro Avian from London to Australia three years ago. One Charles Butler completed the flight last week for $170 in a Comper Swift, supposedly the tiniest airplane in the world (weight about 500 lb.). Wearing carpet slippers for comfort, carrying a tomahawk for protection in case of a forced landing, Pilot Butler flew the 11,500 mi. in 9 days, 1 hr., 32 min., beating by about an hour the record of Charles William Anderson Scott...
...Only 65 sq. mi. in area, Liechtenstein is one of Europe's tiniest independent states. It is situated between Switzerland and Austria, has a population of 11,500, no army. Present ruler of Liechtenstein is Prince Franz, 77. Two years ago Prince Franz married Frau Elsa von Eross, née Baroness Guttman of Vienna. He had married her secretly in 1921 in Salzburg, Austria. Because she was a commoner he could not make public the marriage. She is wealthy, of Jewish descent...
...chief continental rival, North German Lloyd's Herr Direktor Karl Stimming, is also very short, very forceful, but is bald and has the tiniest possible mustache. †Equivalent to board chairman...