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...alone in this view: Jimmy Byrnes was dead-set against the three-man board, and Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch had personally phoned Congressmen, begging them to drop it. Georgia's Senator Walter George called the bill almost impossible to administer. New York's bell-shaped Mayor LaGuardia nut-shelled all the complaints; he told a Senate committee that the bill could be fixed by "one little amendment. Strike out every thing after the enacting clause...
...been 29 months overseas . . . nearly a year in the front lines. . . . My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. . . . All of a sudden it seemed to me that if I heard one more shot or saw one more dead man, I would go off my nut." Frail, brave Columnist Pyle added that, as soon as he is rested up, he hopes to push off for the Pacific...
...interrogation at No. 19 Moellergaten went on, the prosecutors tried a new persuasion: wide metal cuffs, slipped around wrist and knee, with a wing-nut attached, to press against an inner cuff like a brake band. When a pipe-length was applied to the wing nut for leverage, bones cracked like walnuts. With care, occasional recesses and dashes of cold water in the face, the pressure could be prolonged up to 48 hours. Gestapoman Rediess hoped his trick would serve to get the address of every illegal printing plant in Norway. Outside the muffling walls, the unwitting crowds continued...
...beet seed is Roy Bainer, an agriculture teacher at the University of California. Professor Bainer had been teaching and tinkering at Cal's agricultural experiment station in Davis since 1929. One of his inventions is a ma chine for cracking English walnuts. On a conveyer belt, the nuts pass under a buzz saw which nicks holes in them; next they get an injection of oxygen and acetylene and move on to a flame which explodes the shells. The nut meat drops neatly into a hopper...
...will merely enumerate those courses which we did not get: creamed celery soup with croutons, baked squash, head lettuce with Russian dressing, hot rolls, chocolate nut cake, assorted fruits, candy, nuts, cigarets, tobacco...