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Seven thousand of the mines we removed were planted in the most unexpected places, where they had no right to be-in museums, cloisters, churches and administrative buildings. . . . The other 3,000 mines were found where one could expect them-at railway emplacements and other points .which the Russians expected Germans to occupy. . . . The Russian forces had taken the fire department with them, including personnel, trucks and hose...
...while Inside Latin America was in the press, the chapter on Panama is slightly dated. But there are excellent sidelights on Arias and some disturbing pages on the vulnerability of the Canal. People usually forget that there is no road across the Isthmus parallel to the Canal. "The Panama Railway (which is owned and operated by the United States) had, by charter, the right to veto any proposal for a highway that would cut into its lucrative business." President Roosevelt has ordered work begun on a road...
...another under way), 77 track-miles of subways, 21 bridges and viaducts (five of the bridges enormous revenue-producers), 2,000 miles of curbing and re-curbing; 1,200 miles of sidewalks and paths. And it removed 160 miles of street car and railroad tracks, 30 miles of elevated railway...
...Country Editor William Allen White last week suggested an "interesting game." He offered a book prize for the best list of ten Emporians most likely to be hanged to Commercial Street lampposts should Nazis capture the town. First entries came from an electrical-appliance dealer and a Santa Fe railway switchman. Like Abou ben Adhem, Editor White headed their lists...
...Dynamiter. As a military attache in Mexico, the young Junker became an eager student of the Mexican revolution. He kept the German War Ministry informed on just how the revolutionists blew up railway trains-"by burying dynamite beneath the line itself. . . . Infernal machines, so far as I know, have not been employed." But they were employed in the U.S., almost as soon as Papen opened his large office at No. 60 Wall Street...