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Along the dusty roads of Lusitania Spanish peasants last week saw a sight that white men had not seen in 450 years: Moorish tribesmen, bearded and burnoosed, swinging their long brass-mounted rifles on the way to fight in Spain. News of the march caused grim chuckles to a ginger-bearded fat gentleman on the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Abdel Krim, Rif chieftain who mocked the armies of Spain for six years until French intervention in 1925 brought about his defeat & exile, knew last week that his own Rif tribesmen were being rearmed by the very officers...
...doing all the talking!" bellowed Pennsylvania's Lieut. Governor Thomas Kennedy one night last week at an unidentified speaker in the State Senate gallery in Harrisburg. "I happen to be the President of the Senate, not you!" "Boo," chorused some 500 men, women & children as they pounded the brass gallery railings with sticks. "Quit stalling! Pass bills! Pass bills!" they screamed, raining their sticks down on the Senate floor below...
...wires are only about .01 inch in diameter. To make long belts, sections of screen must be joined together. Arc welding or flame welding with a torch would be cheap and convenient, but it is impracticable because if the heat is applied an instant too long, the soft brass or bronze is burned and the seam ruined. In the Longoria device the weld is made with a small needle projecting from an insulated handle. When the needle is lifted from the seam, current stored in three condensers is discharged, a spark jumps the gap and just the right amount...
Longoria sold his process to Yoder Co. of Cleveland for an unannounced sum. Then Bridgeport (Conn.) Brass Co. raised indignant howls, claimed that the inventor had verbally contracted to sell the process to it for $600,000. In Cleveland last week Bridgeport Brass Co. was suing in Federal court to prevent the deal with Yoder Co. from bearing fruit...
...went to the microphone in Vienna and dished the Deal in verbose German-the ideal language in which to express several conflicting ideas at once with nebulous luminosity. His bare fact was that Austria and Germany had made a pact. The Schuschnigg broadcast simply did not get down to brass tacks, and neither did subsequent official announcements. A so-called "summary," but not the text of what had been signed, was issued, and officials admitted that this summary did not cover "secret" clauses which exist in the pact. Trying to guess, the world press lashed itself into reams of rhetoric...