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When Signor Mussolini appeared on a balcony of the Palazzo Vecchio to speak he was announced to the Florentine populace by two heralds in red and white medieval costume who put long brass trumpets to their lips and blew a blast heard a halfmile away. Last week Il Duce even carried his blasting to Paris. For the Petit Parisien he wrote an article attacking by implication Statesman Briand's dearest hobby and pet scheme, his projected European Union or "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...
...each air tank was posted a brown native swimmer, manning valves which would admit water, let the pipe sink to the bottom of the bay. When all was ready a whistle blast was sounded and the offshore end started to submerge. Watchers saw the long serpent slowly disappearing, when suddenly something went wrong. The great pipe started slipping sidewise, gathering speed. Tremendous pressure of strong subsea currents had snapped one of the shore cables like cotton thread. Soon the other cable parted and the whole long pipe plunged downward out of sight, a total loss...
...Impeachment." At the Capitol Senator Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explaining the resolution to newsmen, admitted that the President could not be forced to give up the papers, declared with a smile: "There would be no remedy except through impeachment - and that's too slow." Broadcast Blast. Secretary Stimson went to a radio microphone and appealed to the country over the Senate's head for Treaty support. In a long address in which he went back to Charles I of England to review naval limitation, he blasted away at persons in and out of the Senate...
...makes other millions. But hardship makes the closest bonds. And Liberty, the Patterson pet, has found hard-going. Its advertising is slim. Just why this should be so, few can explain. In May 1924, Liberty was born. No magazine had ever been blessed with such a blast of birthday publicity or with more potent parentage. Within six months it had 600,000 readers. Advertisers in magazines were prejudiced against its Sunday-supplement flavor, but in a few years this prejudice waned and Liberty's advertising pages increased. Then, in 1928, just as success seemed certain, Liberty blundered, tripped...
Synthetic resins (like Zalmite) are basically a chemical synthesis of phenol (carbolic acid), formaldehyde and some form of nitrogen. Wood flour is used as a filler. Zalmite is rendered light and porous by sending a blast of air through the soft uncast material...