TRANSPORTATION: Anna from Antwerp

One day last week hundreds of windows in Montgomery Ward & Co.'s plant on the Chicago River flew up as if by prearrangement. In them stood thousands of employes of the mail order house. They cheered. They shouted. They waved their arms. They tossed out rolls and rolls of ticker tape and other paper supplied by the management. Their noise and excitement blended with the toot of tugs and the blare of bands along the river.

Object of the demonstration was not a world flyer or bathing beauty but a flag-draped little Swedish...

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