Business & Finance: Alchemy of Time

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Tangora thought of his wife who was wringing her hands at the ringside, thought of his four months' training (golf, athlete's diet, and three hours daily at the key board), thought of the $100,000 insurance on his fingers, which were getting slippery in spite of the special preparation of talcum and alum with which they were coated, thought of the $10,000 that Royal would pay him for exhibitions if he won. He sprinted desperately.

Time works wonders and today Minnesota is thriving on its wheat and corn and is known the world over for its fine flour though corn . . .

PONG !

It was all over. Two minutes more and the whole Alchemy of Time would have been used up. Tangora had rapped out 43,000 strokes in 60 minutes. Subtracting 54 errors, he had averaged 135 words a minute, tying the all-time world record. Panting Peters, only two words a minute behind, got up gloomily, prepared to entrain for Toronto, where this week at the Canadian National Exhibition another rival international championship bout is to be held.