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Free Demonstration. In London, while hundreds of visitors crowded Selfridges' department store to watch a Scotland Yard exhibition on crime-prevention methods, a young man dipped into the second-floor cash register and made off with the day's take...
...Music Building, at the time of its construction, was considered an ideal structure. Paine Hall, the second-floor auditorium, is one of the finest small concert halls in the country, thanks partly to an acoustical device known as a "bouncing wall." The "bounce" comes from certain parts of the side and back walls which are made of canvas with an air-space behind. The rest of the building originally contained a tiny music library, classrooms, and offices...
With the recent opening of the second-floor common room pre-war comforts have been largely restored, Hoya said. It is now possible for this year's committee to turn its attention to the planning of activities in which the whole freshman class can participate, he added...
While Congress debated the military assistance program, the final outlines of MAP had gradually taken shape in half a dozen-looseleaf notebooks in a second-floor office of the State Department. There, listed item by item, with the quantity and price of each, were precise allocations of military arms to each MAP country. Last week MAP planners combed through the notebooks and cut out $160 million worth of low-priority items to fit the $1 billion program authorized by Congress for the Atlantic Treaty nations...
...ride" until the legislature tripled its taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue (and Democratic political boss) Victor Salazar, "the second-floor governor"-is a political byword in the state. Chunky, fast-moving Will Harrison does his own legwork...