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...Mathis is the fourth largest seller in France. Durant will retail it at around $500, hence compete with the American Austin. Testimony to the popularity of torn-thumb cars was the report last week that American Austin Car Co. Inc., with normal capacity of 60,000 a year, had 184,000 unfilled orders on hand June...
...much of the relief work having been curtailed as unnecessary, the government's chief problem lay in trying to persuade inhabitants to return to their homesites. Not only the fresh and fearful recollection of over 2,000 killed and twice as many injured, but the fact that the torn earth still quivered ominously from time to time made the villagers of Melfi, Puglia, Avellino, Ariano skeptical about going home prematurely...
Shooters were conscious of and honored the occasion. They knew that the opponents which the International team must try to defeat were neither the War-torn Belgians and Balkans, the game-killing Canadians or South Africans but the peaceable, phlegmatic Swiss, finest marksmen in the world...
...type of structure, and only one, which the modern housewrecker with all his pneumatic drills and acetylene torches finds himself hard put to destroy. Even the late Jacob Volk, who called him- self ''the most destructive force in Manhattan," even the Napoleonic Herman Sonken of Kansas City, who has torn down whole towns and railroads in his time?even such experienced destroyers have much respect for vaults, especially vaults of reinforced concrete lined with steel...
...Rhineland so recently freed of the last French troops (TIME, July 14), life continued exciting last week for "Separatists" (advocates of an independent Rhineland Republic) and suspect French-sympathizers. Their noses were punched, their houses wrecked, their clothes torn, their shops gutted with delirious crowds of Pan-German youths storming up and down the ''liberated provinces...