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...Government for infringement of six bomb patents. In 1932, while his suit was dragging on, he appeared in Washington and began to scare people. He confided in President Hoover and members of Congress that he had a machine which Senator Lynn Frazier later described as "powerful enough to destroy all property and life in a section a quarter of a mile wide and a mile long." So impressed was Senator Frazier that he opposed the Hale Bill to enlarge the Navy, on the ground that Mr. Barlow's invention would make obsolete all existing military and naval armaments...
...some were only mildly sick. But, according to the Pennsylvania survey of 120 "men on the job . . . only five per cent of the persons examined . . . were found to be completely free from pathological signs and symptoms." So strong a solvent is C52 that its fumes, inhaled, destroy the fatty sheaths of nerves, soften the fat matter of the brain. For some people, even a whiff is enough to produce a difficulty in walking. First symptom of poisoning, said Drs. Trumper & Gordy, is a kind of drunkenness, a "C52 jag." Then follow "a rich variety of neurologic disorders" including vertigo, vomiting...
...less than five of the 15 deal with various aspects of education, by means of which Professor Hogben is sure that civilization could be saved-or for the first time created. "If European civilization does not use science to rid itself of [war, poverty and disease], war will probably destroy our Anglo-American civilization. . . irreparably...
...locomotives, the modern industrial beauty of the railroad yards, which are regimented, grimy and shabby, but also vast and mysterious. In the morning the yards are seen bustling, in the rain forlorn, at night ominous. There is a gnawing dread that, like the human characters, the rushing trains will destroy each other, kill some one. But in the end it is the humans who kill and are killed...
...call is from people locked out of their home. Although most animal accidents such as cats stranded in trees are turned over to the Animal Rescue League, recently the department rescued a small dog who had swallowed his collar. another odd case happened when tear gas was used to destroy a bees nest in an old house...