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...strongest. Few months later, before his identity had been discovered, he and a few bold comrades escaped. A seasoned veteran now at 24, O Malley was sent back to his guerrilla battlefield, this time with 7,000 men in his command. He found the revolutionary movement driven literally underground, with headquarters in dugouts, but with a new spirit of hope: the lost cause was beginning to win. While he was planning bigger and better raids, peace came at last...
...adoption of the platform would "change the form of distribution in this country for the next 50 years." Yet Harry Schachter of Kaufman-Straus Co. (Louisville, Ky.) flatly announced that the merchants of his city were behind the platform "100%." After this confused reception, the platform was hastily shoved underground into the hands of the resolutions committee. Most of the merchants felt they were being pushed into something about which they knew very little. And among some the conviction was growing that after all uniform Federal regulation for industry as a whole might be better than a hodge-podge...
...husband (Oscar Homolka), proprietor of a London cinemansion, is the hireling of a gang of terrorists. While she tends her little brother Stevie, Verloc douses all the lights of London by sabotaging the generators. Next he is ordered to blow up Piccadilly Circus by leaving a bomb in the Underground station. Meanwhile, a handsome Scotland Yarder has him under surveillance, also makes eyes at Sylvia. Unable to leave the house without being detected, Verloc sends Stevie to plant the bomb. Unwitting Stevie dawdles, is blown up on the way. Sylvia then stabs Verloc to death, is about to surrender...
...theme of the north wall is derived from the ancient Niebelung Legend and is symbolic of greed for power and its resultant oppression of humanity. The lunette above the door represents the cavern of Niebelheim. The dwarfs who inhabit this underground region are working to create the destructive wealth of the world, symbolized in the legend by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold, for their ruler, Alberich, who is lashing them on to greater labors...
...Manhattan last week that for radiotelephony between fixed points, Bell's coaxial cable provides "a piece of the ether which has been segregated from all the other ether in the world." Because it can carry a frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide and can "pipe" tele vision underground for hundreds of miles...