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...German agents did blow up the Cyclops, that was their right-the U. S. was then in the War. But if German agents blew up Lehigh Valley R. R.'s Black Tom Terminal (July 29, 1916) and Canadian Car & Foundry Co.'s Kingsland Assemblying Plant (Jan. 11, 1917), that was not their right and Germany must pay $25,000,000 damages, for the U. S. was then neutral. Last fortnight the New York Evening Post obtained access to and published some of the evidence to be filed by the U. S. in a suit U. S. v. Germany...
...almost staggering blow was given to the fireworks industry when the late Edward W. Bok's Ladies' Home Journal before the war against fireworks, printed scores of pictures of children maimed and blinded by them. Following this series Mayor William J. Gaynor signed an ordinance banning fireworks in New York City. Many another municipality, then many a state government followed suit. Then it was that fireworks manufacturers called Science to their aid to construct safer, saner displays. Sparklers of aluminum bronze which throws off incandescent but quick-cooling particles as it burns, were invented for children. Crackers were...
...little in its chase as though one side were pulling harder than the other; now and then a Harvard man looked quickly over his shoulder. Two lengths showed between the boats at a mile and one-half. An unwritten rule of boat-racing prescribes that yachts shall not blow their horns until the finish, but some Yale sympathizer felt that it did not matter whether the Yale boat heard their coxswain now or not; one siren started, and the river roared with noise. Harvard got to the line 21 sec. (5½ lengths) after Yale had let its shell...
...heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson. Carnera was puzzled in the first round but thereafter held Godfrey's neck immovably in the clinches, jolted him with short rights, stung him with long lefts. In the fifth round Godfrey suddenly and apparently with deliberation hit Carnera low, followed the first bad blow with a long left below the groin. Carnera, writhing in agony, was declared winner on a foul...
...unanimous in condemning the increase at the present time. Even the business men whom the Boston Herald would have settle the tariff are opposed to the new measure. Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan, friends of the President and giants of industry, hit the bill as a dangerous blow to genuine prosperity...