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Inside the plant two dozen peace officers and firemen tried to think. Assistant Fire Chief James Bolz had an idea. He telephoned to nearby California Institute of Technology, pleaded for an explosives expert. In a few minutes a lone automobile slid to a stop at the scene. Out stepped Professor William Noble Lacey, the brisk embodiment of Science, to the rescue...
...Lone bright spot in the steel business last week was the increased demand for tinplate wherewith to can drought-stricken beasts. Rut darkest spot in all commodities was the price of hides, down from 6½¢ per lb. to 3½¢ in the past week, or 15% in six trading days, because the market was glutted by Government slaughtering. After strenuous protest from tanners, RFC last week agreed to advance $10,000,000 to hold surplus hides off the market until demand increases or they can be dumped abroad...
...Himalayas none has returned to tell the tale. Up to last week 13 persons were known to have perished in 13 years of trying. Last week the world heard of a 14th victim when three Indian porters arrived in Darjeeling with the story of one man's lone assault...
...Somervell stopped, gasping horribly. Norton struggled on a few yards, reached the highest point from which any man has returned alive. He was snow-blind for days. The same year G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine started up from Camp No. 6. As they approached the peak a lone observer below saw them enveloped by a mist cloud. No one ever saw them again. It was Mallory who had answered for all Everest climbers when someone asked him why men risked their lives to scale the mountain: "Because it's there...
...Lone dissenter was James H. Doolittle, onetime Army Air Corps major, who in a one-man minority report wrote: "I am convinced that the required air force can be more rapidly organized, equipped and trained if it is completely separated from the Army and developed as an entirely separate arm." Failing this. "Jimmy" Doolittle urged that at least the Army Air Corps should be removed from control of the General Staff. To this a majority of the committee retorted: "The committee is not greatly impressed with the validity of the several imputations against the General Staff. Control is always repressive...