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...moment, while the implications of those words sank in, the Senate sat in shocked silence. Then the storm broke, and in one of the most exciting spontaneous debates of this or many a past session, the Senate talked Sit-Down, and nothing else for the rest of the week...
...came closest to doing that last week when he took three putts at the 15th, where two would have given him a birdie. The next three holes he played without a slip. On the 18th, a crowd of 5,000 packed around the green held its breath until he sank his putt, then roared its applause. An amiable, quiet young man who looks faintly like Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Nelson took his ball out of the cup and went indoors to get first prize-a check...
...June 3. Everything went wrong. Eight of the ten torpedoes with which Hobson had planned to scuttle his ship refused to explode. The Spaniards were execrable marksmen, but they shot away his rudder chains and the Merrimac drifted helplessly past its mark into open harbor. There two Spanish torpedoes sank it in a spot where it did no one any harm...
...known among his unsavory associates as "The Wizard." The first Garland wizardry was promotion of Automatic Signal Corp. to make his patented traffic light. Among the original investors were two du Fonts, Charles Michael Schwab, who served for a time as a director, and old Economist Fisher, who sank no less than $750,000 in the enterprise. Automatic Signal is still a going concern with Mr. Fisher trying to get his money back as board chairman...
...with Westinghouse Electric was U. S. Steel, which was not in the list even in 1929, when the company made $197,000,000 and its stock sold at a high of $261 per share.* As it turned out, U. S. Steel was a good stock to avoid, for it sank to a Depression low of $21 and even at the turn of this year could be bought for $75 per share...