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...bullets from rifles and machine guns made in England, Belgium and the U. S. last week. The compliment was returned by U. S. Presbyterian Missionary Doctor Robert W. Hockman of Jijiga. Said he: "Even the use of dumdum bullets-and I am certain they are being used-does not affect the Ethiopian warriors, who by tradition are accustomed to all sorts of the most unspeakable barbarity. This country cannot be overcome by mechanized armies. It is remarkable to see thousands of warriors spring from the grass and come from behind rocky hills when a bugle is blown...
...These great Government power projects will affect not only the development of agriculture and industry and mining in the sections they serve, but they will also prove useful yardsticks to measure the cost of power throughout the United States. It is my belief that the Government should proceed to lay down the first yardstick...
...others of the sort to participate in the new cultural life of Germany!" roared the man who once wanted to be an artist and ended a house painter. "Dadaists, futurists and impressionists forget that the task of Art is not to promote degeneracy but to fight degeneracy. Those who affect the primitive style are either swindlers or maniacs...
...Drugs are an established scientific medical aid. Still, their application is general. They affect some organs and tissues adversely as they benefit other organs or tissues. In electrical therapy we can concentrate on the particular without affecting other parts of the patient. With it we can increase or decrease blood circulation, gland secretion, nerve tension, muscle tension, metabolic change...
...lobbies, are trucks used exclusively for carrying newspapers, fish, livestock and farm produce, all trucks owned by farmers' co-operative associations, private manufacturers and merchants. Totally exempt are school buses, hotel buses, trolley buses, taxicabs and buses & trucks engaged only in intrastate commerce. The Federal law will directly affect about 50,000 trucks, 100,000 buses. However, since every State but Delaware has some measure of motor carrier regulation, the new law will in effect do little more than stabilize an industry in which the big units heartily favor regulation. Though the railroads have been yowling long & loud...