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TIME keeps many a seaman from being left in the lurch about what the world is doing, and FORTUNE is so damned fascinating that the educational articles are fed to us with the sugar coated pill of entertainment. An easy pill for all hands to swallow...
...enclosed by a granite and concrete building topped with a bombproof roof. An invading army that lands on the Atlantic coast will have 600 rough miles to travel before it reaches Fort Knox. Common thieves will have to outwit and outfight a detachment of 24 Mint guards in "pill boxes" at the building's four corners and the entire Seventh Cavalry brigade outside. When 20 or more similar shipments are completed in the next few months, Chief Clerk Van Home will have some $6,000,000,000 in Government gold charged up to him at Fort Knox...
...consuming activity in the past few stories, that of "taking care" of friends at state expense, has provided a fitting climax to a long and thoroughly unenviable career. But even had he given a sugary pill at the end of his doctoring of the state, he could not overcome the evil taste left by large doses of sickening medicines...
...Centenary. Those oldsters remembered him as a great, gaunt, Lincolnesque figure striding under the Williamstown elms in frock coat and top hat, carrying a gold-headed cane. Or they recalled his classes in moral philosophy, when he wrote their names on slips of paper, stuffed them in a pill box and drew them out, one by one, for the order of recitation. Few could remember much more. Reflected Williams' President Tyler Dennett last week: "In stitutions have many of the attributes of persons, but one quality they lack - mem ory. A college has life far beyond the limit...
...them, stood in crowds all day long before Madrid's railway station last week to be herded into trains and sent off to Valencia and safety. All night long picks and pneumatic drills echoed in the streets. Spain's Radical Government was digging trenches, building pill boxes for the bloody last battle with the Whites which was coming as inevitably as Death. As soon as the street trenches were finished they were manned with taxi drivers, shop clerks, bricklayers, shoemakers, who were ordered to stay at their posts, eating and sleeping there until the attack on Madrid should...