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...starter a small dynamite cap explodes, which sets fire to a quantity of powder. This burns in a constricted place and gives a high whistling noise like a fire in the gas line. Great quantities of smoke pour out, the victim decides the car is going to blow up and makes his preparation to leave just as the final explosion lets...
First French benefit from the new alliance came last week when Stalin strongly indicated to French Communists that for them now to sabotage the French military machine is equally a blow against Communist Russia...
Mayor LaGuardia of New York celebrated the first birthday party of that lustily kicking baby, the Progressive Party, by dealing a typically LaGuardian blow right in the spot where the United States should feel of most. In his radio address this Mayor made the perennially startling statement that the only practical way out of the country's present economic difficulties is to amend the Constitution...
Newshawks were assigned to the French Destroyer Foudroyant, bucking and wallowing through the gale. Since no destroyer could keep up speed in such a blow, the Normandie, designed as the world's fastest liner with a speed of 32 knots plus, soon vanished from the Foudroyant's sight, planned to cruise to the Azores, returning for her maiden voyage from Havre to Manhattan...
Patent No. 2,000,000 is for an "improvement for pneumatic tires for railroad cars."* Inventor Ledwinka thinks very little of it. Said he: ''Rubber at high speeds builds up a tremendous heat, enough to blow out the tube, or in solid tires to melt them internally. We were forced recently to replace pneumatic tires with metal wheels on a train we shipped to Texas." Budd Co. will develop his railroad tire, said he, "to meet competition...