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Last week the biggest thing mankind has ever made began to spurt power . As Grand Coulee's first bolt of electricity sped to Bonneville's Government-owned transmission lines, it signaled the start of another round in an old, old fight : public v. private power...
...Winship sped down a hard-packed Sherburne trail in Pinkham Notch yesterday morning in the fast time of 2 minutes 36 seconds capturing the annual Harvard ski race and securing as an added honor the trophy recently offered to the winner of this traditional event...
...think Hitler can lick these people. I think he's up against as tough a crowd as there is, and I think they have the military stuff, with the help we can give them, to win. It won't be a stalemated war." Then he sped to the Hotel Roosevelt for a parley with Ambassador John G. Winant. That evening, pouch-eyed, gaunt, battered, he climbed out of a parlor car at Washington and went directly to the White House...
...last week, for the first time, Benito Mussolini took the trouble to meet the man he helped to power in Spain. At II Duce's invitation Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his Foreign Minister and brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, sped across southern France to the Italian Riviera town of Bordighera, where II Duce was waiting to shake hands. While an Italian armored train, its guns turned on the Mediterranean, chuffed nervously up & down the Riviera between San Remo and Grimaldi, II Duce, El Caudillo and the man Spaniards derisively call the Big Shot Brother...
Under cover of darkness, Batista slipped out the back door of the Palace, jumped in his grey and blue car and sped away to Camp Columbia, the Army headquarters. He called the officers together, ascertained that they were with him rather than with Commander in Chief Pedraza. Then things began to happen...