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...vigorous and picturesque bourgeois liberal in half a century of Chilean politics, Alessandri succeeded in provoking a new storm of discussion. But the Government prudently declared a plebiscite unconstitutional. A Congress majority, from Radicals through Democrats to Conservatives, was for the break. The Lion of Tarapacá's roar turned out to be neutrality's swan song...
Bomb bursts and gun cracks are not the only war noises that shatter or dull the mechanism of the human ear (TIME, Nov. 2). The racket and roar of heavy machinery is also a menace. To quell such clamor, some workers use plugs of cotton, rags, rubber, wax. These are not always sanitary, are sometimes dangerous...
Most thrilling sequence in Inside Fighting China is its picture of the Battle of Taierchwang. The Chinese lie in wait in the hills while the camera hovers over the Japanese columns advancing along the roads below. Then with a roar the Chinese swarm down, utterly smash the Japs...
...through the Florida Everglades, left young Donald convinced that an amphibious vehicle could have saved many lives. So he built an expensive, well-equipped machine shop on his estate, hired experienced workers, on the fourth try put a lumbering boxlike four-ton monster through its paces. With a terrible roar it clambered through mangrove swamps, crunched eight-inch trees, splashed over bayous. Donald promptly named his new machine Alligator, went to work on bigger & better models...
First the Dorniers, then dive-bombers roar down for the kill, and Captain Kinross' ship goes down with more than half her crew. Then, while the Captain and a few sailors, covered with fuel oil and sprayed with machine-gun bullets, cling precariously to a raft in the scummy water, the camera flashes back to tell the whole story of the ship...