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Last week the diplomatic pressure from both sides eased off into a prolonged flourish of bugles, which may or may not have contained a note or two from the bourgeois-terrifying "Internationale." M. Rakovsky accepted the deafening blast ordered by M. Doumergue at its full tonal value. Smiling, he nodded to the buglers as he entered the palace of the President to present his credentials...
Having captured the Druse capital of Suedia (TIME, Oct. 5), General Gamelin, the French commander, proceeded to blast it into complete obliteration with every engine of scientific destruction at his command. Alleging that every house had been filled with snipers at the time of their entrance into the city, the French proceeded to dynamite countless ramshackle structures...
...process of rebuilding and remodeling old and inefficient blast furnaces is also going on. This has led U. S. steel to dismantle some of its oldest plants in the Pittsburgh district, and to rebuild more efficient ones at Youngstown...
...grew worse and worse. Paniter Charchowsky, now well-nigh charred, flung back his reeking sheets. To his delirious senses it seemed that the steam heat was singing and sputtering, that it gave off heat. He put his hand against it, rushed to the basement, found the furnace in full blast, brought suit next day against Landlord Lesch, charged disorderly conduct, conspiracy to drive him from his apartment...
WHAT PRICE GLORY?-A battle song with some blood, no heroes and a blast of bitter irony...