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...producer and its silver mines are even more important to its domestic economy than its oil fields. Thirteen percent of the Government's revenues have come from the silver industry. Silver is a major factor in its currency and in its foreign exchange. And if Mexico tries to dump its silver directly on the world market, Secretary Morgenthau can simply pull his plug...
...them, drag a heavy steel cable across the ruins of the foundations and try to wrap it around the tall, narrow piece of wall. They cannot hitch it on high enough to get effective leverage. The other end of the cable is bent onto the bumper of a heavy dump truck...
...jumped to the "static spark" conclusion advanced as a cause of the Hindenburg's explosion last year at Lakehurst. But most experts accepted a simpler explanation-that flame or sparks, which sometimes trail out 40 ft. behind Clipper exhaust pipes, ignited gasoline vaporizing from the plane's dump valves a dozen feet below...
Books must be returned to the library by 9 o'clock at Vassar, but there is group of enterprising young things have gone into the business of returning books for a penny apiece. They have a box in the hall of each dormitory where you dump the book and leave a penny in the slot, then they wheel a cart around and pick up the boxes and take them to the library...
Then one afternoon a squadron of 40 Japanese bombers and pursuit planes came thundering upriver, proceeded to dump several tons of explosives upon the city, setting large districts afire. Through it all the Soviet pilots remained morosely on the ground beside their planes. Dispatches recorded "acute Chinese disappointment." Correspondents could get no explanation of the Soviet surliness past Chinese censors...