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...veterans will see World War I prison camp money, food ration tickets, postal card propaganda and zeppelin air raid pictures. German thin paper nocks are shown, advertised an providing "excellent, protection for the foot against cold and front...
...thin thread of continuity that runs through Hold On to Your Hats is spun of the same stuff that has gone into most theatrical satires on radio. A timid aerial star known as the Lone Rider is enticed to a Western dude ranch, confronted with real bandits who scare the chaps off him until just before the finale, when he gets the drop on them all. Jaunty at 54, still tops at putting over a song or a story, Jolson gallops triumphantly through the part of the Lone Rider, accompanied by a whole rodeo of able talent...
...delegates threshed some of their differences thin, but left most for later meetings to handle. With thinkers' caution they decided to spend the next two academic years preparing statements of their agreement, to meet again in the fall of 1941 and 1942 to work on their great project: an inclusive system of thought for civilized man. Said the conference: "The departmentalization of human knowledge has been proceeding for more than a century; its integration, with the most valiant efforts, will take more than a meeting of three days...
Jefferson, a tall, thin, freckled, worried man, even proposed to his Cabinet a Constitutional amendment to cover the case. His Cabinet voted the idea down. In October the Senate convened. Jefferson presented the treaties covering the transaction for ratification, and the Senate gave consent. Though rival Federalists were glum, in Washington, "every pig, goose and duck, far and near," was rounded up for two days of feasting and cheers...
...more than 200 years steelmakers fashioned strips and sheets by drawing hot ingots through rolling mills, then laboriously smoothing and polishing the rough surfaces. In 1921 young, blond, solidly-built Abram Peters Steckel, engineering student, watched sweating men in a wire plant reduce cold rods to thin wire by successive draws through rollers and dies. Mechanically-minded Steckel thought the same idea could be used in reducing steel strips and sheets. He built a crude cold-rolling mill in a friend's garage, went broke...