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Thousands of Iraqi crowded Bagdad's dirty streets, weeping and beating their breasts over the sudden death of 27-year-old King Ghazi I. Iraq's council of ministers announced that the next King would be Ghazi's three-year-old baby boy, Feisal II. For 14 years, until Feisal comes of age, Iraq will be ruled by a regent chosen from among royal uncles and cousins, who may easily fall prey to Iraq's Anglophobe troublemakers. How successful the British may be in educating Feisal to love England remains to be seen, but they will...
Most striking incident in Belgium's sudden unification: Dr. Martens resigned from the Academy. He announced his resignation at one o'clock the afternoon of election day-just when the polls closed, so as not to influence the vote but in plenty of time to remove his irksome issue from Belgian politics before the new Parliament meets...
...strong guard around the house of the judge who presided at the trial. But I. R. A. terror, like poison ivy, breaks out in strange places. Late that night, motorists and pedestrians going sleepily home over Hammersmith Bridge, the farthest up-Thames within London, were rocked by a sudden Boom! Suspension chains snapped, a support-girder sagged, windows 100 yards away on the north bank crashed to the street. Bam! In mid-bridge another blast shook the 52-year-old structure from tower to tower. The whole span drooped a foot below its usual level...
...filler was cellulose acetate. In the new it is polyvinyl acetal resin, a synthetic plastic made from acetylene. In an automobile this flexible, yielding pane is something like a transparent, moistureproof, windproof curtain. It is expected to cut down the number and seriousness of highway injuries due to sudden stops...
...Pliny Fisk had pegged the Government bond market at 110. One day, he happened to be standing behind the late Edward H. Harriman on the floor of the Exchange when Harriman, who had gone heavily short, attempted to break the market by a sudden offer to sell $500,000 worth at 90. Fisk promptly accepted, offered to take all others...