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...waters dominated by France and Britain he was risking that they might be "trapped." If there were such protests, Adolf Hitler ignored them, relying upon heavy concentrations of Italian warships off the Balearics and Eastern Spain to wreck any trap which French naval concentrations at more distant Toulon and Bone might conceivably try to spring...
...right of their normal position. Thus Martian vapor lines would have been separated from those of Earth. The astronomers armed the 100-in. telescope with a 9-ft. spectral grating, but no Martian vapor lines showed up. They concluded that the planet's atmosphere is very nearly bone...
Tendered respectfully to Speaker Bankhead of the House of Representatives last week was the second such record. With bone-dry formality it stated the decisions, votes and reasoning of the Board at 15 meetings during 1936, disclosed one surprising fact: the Board was not unanimous but divided on its most generally applauded action, the first, 50% increase in member bank reserve requirements, which took effect last August. The dissenters: Governors John Keown McKee and Chester Charles Davis. Whether they disagreed in whole or in part with the Board's consensus was not revealed. Whether or not they came around...
...Sculptor Epstein, not long after he settled in London, received his first big commission through the kind offices of Etcher Muirhead Bone: 18 colossal figures for the façade of the British Medical Association's new building in the Strand. For his theme he chose The Birth of Energy and his uncompromising, starkly modeled figures represented such ideas as Primal Energy (a nude man blowing the breath of life into an atom), The Brain (a figure holding a winged skull), Manliness (a figure whose physical attributes were very obvious). Preachers and conservative editors roared denunciation...
...unhappy legislators showed a disinclination to accept any such responsibility, and the measure was defeated in committee in the Democratic Senate. The chains thought they had won. Suddenly Governor Earle put the so-called Store Tax Bill on his list of "must" legislation, turned on the kind of bone-crushing political pressure for which Pennsylvania, Democratic or Republican, is justly famed. The Governor's philosophy: "Let's have many small capitalists instead of a few large ones...