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...most popular educational shows at the New York World's Fair is the Medicine & Public Health exhibit. In the shadowy Hall of Man stand countless glorifications of the human body-a swaying four-foot ear, a talking skeleton, a mechanical biceps, a huge plaster brain studded with push buttons. Through the Hall echoes the muffled beat of an invisible, mechanical heart...
...they [parachute troops] come down, you can shoot them, shoot them, shoot them without any reference to taking any kind of care of their future. ... It is like putting antiseptic into a wound: if you do not put it on pretty quickly it rots. Similarly they will expand and push out, get down the roads, get into the houses and take a lot of getting...
...that he took over the command from a sick predecessor on a few days' notice, that the Austrian surprise attack centred on him. He helped General Armado Diaz and the Allied rescue staff (including France's Weygand) reorganize the Army on the Piave, and planned the final push at Vittorio Veneto in October 1918 which knocked Austria out of World War I. He has been Chief of Staff intermittently ever since, with time out to visit the U. S. (1921), govern Libya (1928-33), finish De Bono's job in Ethiopia. He masterminded Franco's victory...
Commodity markets also turned about last week. The volatile hide market rose ¾?, moved 100,000 hides in two days before Chicago meat packers, anticipating still higher prices next fall, stopped offering more. Another push came from one of the U. S.'s weakest commodities, cotton; spot prices moved up 68 points, touched off a 100,000,000-yard buying move by cotton textile users fearful of a war famine and the possibility that Congress would raise the level of parity payments, up cotton's price. The battered grain markets, which had taken the worst beating during...
...down the valley and highway pathways of assault. Successive, deeper rows of similar weapons were spaced more & more closely until they were backed finally by batteries of 75-mm. field guns, weapons able to knock out heaviest tanks when fired pointblank. The defense plan was to let heavy tanks push back into this final network, to have the advance units destroy motorcycles, armored cars, troop lorries following the heavy equipment...