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Where the Army and the bridgemen split was on clearance. The War Department insisted that the bridge centre must be at least 200 ft. above the water, its pierheads 185 ft. The bridge company offered 180 ft. centre clearance and 154 ft. at the pierheads, declared the structure, if made higher, would be economically unsound because of increased approaches. The Army's specifications, it said, would add $25,000,000 to a cost that already rose close to $200,000.000. But the Army insisted on 200 ft. clearance to accommodate the masts of the Leviathan, Majestic, Olympic, Bremen and Berengaria...
...plane, Private Osborne clambered half out of the cockpit, glanced once at the earth 2,000 ft. below, was seized by the "jitters." He dared not let go, he dared not turn back; so he reached for the steel ring above his heart and yanked it. In a split second the silk 'chute whipped out of its pack in the propeller blast, jerked Private Osborne from his perch-and fouled itself securely on the plane's tail surfaces. Twenty feet below the unhappy soldier dangled, swinging out behind the speeding plane like the weighted tail of a kite...
...Manhattan, a Freud disciple, was scheduled to read a paper on "Abraham Lincoln as a Humorist." Lincoln, from what Dr. Brill has been able to learn out of Lincoln biographies, was a schizoidmanic. That appellation is not so horrendous as it seems in type. A schizoid is a "split personality." He has subtle conflicts among the psychic components of his personality. A manic is a moody person, one subject to fits of exaltation and depression. When a manic or a schizoid or any type of mental aberration annoys his neighbors, they call him crazy and have him locked...
...purchased an option on 21,000 acres of oil land in Kansas, acquired some money and an enthusiasm for the industry. He then thought of buying up royalty rights. He promised three friends that, given $15,000 he could make 100%, for them in one year if they would split future profits. He was six months slow in making good his boast, but the friends decided that 100%, in 18 months was fair enough. Now J. Edward Jones has royalties covering some 250,000 acres of oil land. He has offices in Manhattan, Boston, Tulsa, Independence, Kan., and Dresden, Germany...
Comedy before tragedy. P-for-Painlevé before B-for-Briand. When Bachelor Briand advanced to vote it was noticed that ladies in the gallery cheered particularly hard. The National Assembly cheered, but not enough of it, although those who cheered Briand fairly split their gullets. They were of the Left-Centre and Left. Enemies of the Foreign Minister professed to know then, for a certainty, that he had been beaten, and this may have influenced later votes. There was all the way from B to K to go yet. M. Briand as he voted glanced up expressionless...