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...last week a trailer truck backed up to the Aquarium, rumbled away with 1,000 fish for the Marine Park Aquarium in Boston. A six-foot green moray refused to go, hid under a rock for an hour until a keeper warily prodded him out. Another 2,000 fish left for aquariums in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington. The sea lions now rest uneasily in the lions' house at The Bronx Zoo, where some 4,000 smaller fish and reptiles will join them. They will live in the Zoo until a new Aquarium is built at Coney Island. Another...
Secretary Morgenthau, still looking shyly at his hatchet, admitted that "possible inequities" inherent in his proposal would have to be ironed out. Washington observers still expected that Congress, holding its nose as usual, would tie the usual rock to the Secretary's proposal. No one doubted that Mr. Morgenthau, with his incorrigible coupon-clipping conception of economics, would bring his little hatchet out again...
...loyalty to his old gang was a rock on which his marriage nearly foundered. To please one pal, he sank $30,000 in the Brown Bomber softball team; to please another, he sank $42,000 in the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack, a Detroit eatery. He has been known to pay a check for $1,000 after his "secretary" (another pal) entertained some frisky friends in a Har lem cabaret...
...canal is nothing but a narrow ditch cut through high banks of sandy soil and rock. Its sides rise steeply to a height of over 200 feet, are nowhere faced with masonry to more than 50 feet. The British, knowing that peacetime rains used to cause rock slips which blocked the canal, figured that wartime raids could do the same...
...Mortar (Republic) is a succinct and interesting treatment of the mortar's origins (500 years ago as a rock thrower), its uses, and its assembly. The picture is rather technical for a layman, but undoubtedly effective for training mortar crews...